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"We have concluded that when the principle of phyletism (i.e. ecclesiastical nationalism) is juxtaposed with the teaching of the Gospel and the constant practice of the Church, it is not only foreign to it, but also completely opposed, to it. We decree the following in the Holy Spirit: 1. We reject and condemn racial division, that is, racial differences, national quarrels and disagreements in the Church of Christ, as being contrary to the teaching of the Gospel and the holy canons of our blessed fathers, on which the holy Church is established and which adorn human society and lead it to Divine piety. 2. In accordance with the holy canons, we proclaim that those who accept such division according to races and who dare to base on it hitherto unheard-of racial assemblies are foreign to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and are real schismatics." Constantinople...1872
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    Ethnocratic Orthodoxy

    Posted by frsteven Jvlahos on 11/22/2008, 9:00 am

    While Orthodox Christianity is disfigured on the universal level by fruitless hierarchical contact and dialogue with the papacy and heterodox churches, here in America, the Greek Church under the supervision and direction of foreign political forces continues to pursue the re-instatement of an immigrant an ethnocratic Orthodox Church. In a recent encyclical letter on a Greek national holiday the Greek archbishop speaks as an ethnocrat calling faith and "ethnic" heritage as an "interrelationship". The "interrelationship referred to by the archbishop of ethnicity and theology is absolutely theologically groundless. This distortion of Orthodoxy that conflicts with sacred scriptures, the Holy Fathers, the synods, dogma, the creed and our sacred Tradition exposes the degree to which apostasy and heresy prevails in the Greek Church today.


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