Posted by George Michalopulos
on 10/12/2009, 4:08 am, in reply to "Re: Scandals, their effects, and Unity"
sorry for the response in the delay Tom. My contention that they were elevated to metropolitan status to "buy their silence" was not original to me. A couple of GOA priests told me that in confidence.
As to your continued statement that the GOA metropolises are larger than the other jurisdictions, they are in this respect, certainly larger in square mileage. Consider, how come the OCA has not one, but two dioceses in PA? Can't the GOA open up one in Phillie? How come it has a diocese in DC and another one in NY? Why doesn'the GOA open up shop in DC?
And even if the GOA has more population (which it does), dioceses should be small and compact geographically so they could be closer to the people. You undercut your own argument when you point out the vibrancy of the CoG dioceses, of which they have many.
When I say "extinct mountaintops," what else would you call Troas, Ephesus, Chalcedon, Aspendos, Pergumum and the other extinct sees that are pulled out of the Phanar's hat when they want to elevate some timeserver to episcopal status?
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