This Sunday is called the “Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy” (Orthodoxy – right worship and glorifying of God) over all heresies; which are wrong opinions of demonic inspiration in collaboration with the pride and self-opinion of some Christians (even patriarchs, popes, synods, priests, monks or believers) who have distorted and altered the meaning of the Faith as revealed by God through His prophets and miracles and especially through the coming into the world of His Son, Jesus Christ, the God-Man and the Holy Spirit who founded His Church. The purpose of God’s revelations are for man to understand where he comes from, where he is going, what he must believe in, and what he must do to save his soul. The moment that the correct meanings revealed by God change, then man begins to walk in the wrong direction, which no longer leads him to the salvation of the soul but to his perdition.

The human mind is infested with passions, blindness, lack of clarity and correct perception of things of this life and especially of the spiritual life. Man becomes mentally ill because of misconceptions about life and the world, which do not come from divine revelation, or which come from a poorly transmitted or altered revelation. Heresy is blasphemy against God. 

Many ask the legitimate question, how do we know that the divine revelation is kept in the Orthodox Church?

God revealed the way to Him from the first peoples, to Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the 12 Patriarchs of the Hebrews. God then revealed Himself to Moses in the unburnt bush in the wilderness of Sinai, the bush that was burning but was never consumed by the flames. And these divine revelations always had messages in contradiction with the “gods of the Gentiles” (called demons by the psalmist David). These are called false gods and idols, from whom the people of Israel were protected by distinct separation from all that was not revealed by God. 

The Old Testament is full of divine revelations that confirm the New Testament. The New Testament naturally confirms the Church and is confirmed by the Church and teachings of the Holy Fathers, who have the same enlightenment as the Prophets and the Apostles. The Church of Christ, that is the Holy Spirit in the Church, used and continues to use this method as in the Old Testament to separate the idolaters and those with heretical opinions from the Church so as not to infect the whole body of the Church with false beliefs. The Saints used anathemas to cut off heresies and those who teach them from the Body of the Church; it is an alarm signal that they are outside divine revelation and salvation, and must return to the Truth.

The anathema is the greatest proof of God’s love for those caught in heresy because it gives them a warning. It is like the nervous system of the human body, using pain as an alarm signal. The word ANATHEMA does not mean a curse but means “outside the borders of the Truth, of the Church.” The proclamation of anathemas by the clergy and believers that warns of these heresies, acts as a cure of this disease of the mind, and re-establishes strength in the Orthodox soul. It also awakens the conscience of the heretics to their heresy and prompts a return to the Church. The Holy Apostle Paul calls heresy “turning of the Truth of God into a lie.” Anathema is neither hatred, nor curse, nor insult or contempt, nor slander, but it is God’s medicine for fallen humanity for the sin of changing the revealed Truth. Anathema means that those ideas and persons are outside the boundaries of the Church. Anathema has a pedagogical role for Orthodox Christians to clearly demarcate between the revealed divine Truth and the falsehood of human ideas called heresies or human opinions not based on revelation.

1. To Arius, the first fighter against God: Anathema!
2. To Wulfila the semi-Arian, to Nestorius, to Macedonius – who say that the Holy Trinity suffered – and to Valentine: Anathema!
3. To Peter the Fuller and fool, who said: “Holy Immortal, Who was crucified for us”: Anathema!
4. To Paul of Samosata and to Theodotion: Anathema!
5. To Peter the Paltry, the heretic, who was surnamed Lycopetrus, to the evil-minded Eutychius and Sabellios: Anathema!
6. To Jacob the Armenian, to Dioscorus of Alexandria and to Severus, Sergius, Paul and Pyrrhus, together with Sergius, the disciple of Lycopetrus: Anathema!
7. To the Origenists and to those along with them: Anathema!
8. To the fallen and the anti-canonical patriarchs denying the Fourth Ecumenical Council, Karekin II of Armenia, Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria the Coptic Patriarch, Abune Mathias of Ethiopia, Ignatius Aphrem II of Antioch of the Syriac-Jacobites, Baselios Marthoma Mathews III of the Malankara Indians, who mistakenly call themselves “orthodox” and those who are in communion with them: Anathema!
9. To those who deny the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Holy Ecumenical Councils, monophysites, monothelites and monoenergists: Anathema!
10. To the Eutychianites, Jacobites and Artzivurites: Anathema!
11. To the dreadful assembly against the venerable icons: Anathema!
12. To those who deny the Holy Seventh Ecumenical Council, to those who do not worship our Lord Jesus Christ represented in the icon according to His human nature: Anathema!
13. To Barlaam of Calabria, Gregory Akyndinos, Prochoros of Kidonis, Nikiphoros Grigoras, Giorgios Lapithis and their successors: Anathema!
14. To those who teach the neo-Barlaamite heresy, saying that the Grace of God is created, instead of uncreated: Anathema!
15. To the blasphemer of Christ, Francis of Assisi with all the false “saints” of the papists: Anathema!
16. To the baseless heresiarch Pope Francis I of old Rome, who has fallen according to the Canons, and to those who are in communion with him: Anathema!
17. To those who teach that the Orthodox Church is a “sister Church” of the Roman Catholic congregation and other heresies: Anathema!
18. To Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwigli, Henry VIII – the ungodly king, and to those assembled together with them and to all the Protestant groups: Anathema!
19. To the heresiarch of the religious congregation of Anglicanism, Justin Welby, and to those who are in communion with him: Anathema!
20. To those who deny and defame the Mother of God and the Trinity One in essence and undivided: rabbis of Judaism, Islamists and members of the “Watchtower” society of the pseudo Jehovah’s Witnesses: Anathema!
21. To those who defame the sacraments of the Church: the Baptists, Adventists, Methodists and Pentecostals and to all the groups of non-denominational congregations: Anathema!
22. To those who affirm that Baptism and Chrismation have equal status in the economy of the Church, and that the heretics who have been “received” by Chrismation do not need to be baptised in the Orthodox Church by triple immersion, promoting through this the baptismal heresy that recognises heretical “baptism”: Anathema!
23. To those who preach and teach the pan-heresy of inter-Christian and inter-religious ecumenism: Anathema!
24. To those who preach and teach the post-Patristic and post-canonical heresy, saying that the teachings of the Holy Fathers are obsolete: Anathema!
25. To those who deny the Eighth and Ninth Ecumenical Councils, from the time of Saint Photios the Great and Saint Gregory Palamas, to the Papal-Filioquists: Anathema!
26. To the so-called “World Council of Churches” (of heresies) which teaches that each Protestant branch is part of the Church of Christ and to those who take part in common prayers in the blasphemy and transgression of the Canons, the so-called “Week of Prayer for Christian unity” in January, who consider the heretics as “brothers in Christ”: Anathema!
27. To the Toronto Statement (1950), to the Agreements of Balamand (1993) and Chambesy (1994) in which the anti-Chalcedonians were falsely recognized as Orthodox, and to the declarations from Porto Alegre (1997) and Busan (2013): Anathema!
28. To those who teach that the Church includes all confessions that have departed from Her as “incomplete churches” and to those who say that there are Holy Sacraments, saving Grace and holiness outside the Orthodox Church, the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic: Anathema!
29. To the ethno-phyletists who place their nation, family, tribe, or clan above the Church of Christ: Anathema!
30. To the parasynagogue which is deceptively named “The Army of the Lord” and to their oath which blasphemes Holy Baptism, denying the fact that this is the washing of regeneration and considering it ineffective for salvation: Anathema!
31. To those who teach that the Ecumenical Patriarch is “primus sine paribus”, that is the first without equals: Anathema!
32. To the heretical texts of the ecumenist pseudo-synod of Crete in June 2016, called “The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church” and to those who accept them and put them into practice, the texts which:
    • Enshrine the so-called “restoration of Christian unity” and the historical name of churches for heretics;
    • Enshrine the Constitution of the so-called “World Council of Churches” as a basis for dialogue with heretics – dogmatic minimalism;
    • Enshrine the Toronto Declaration, which states that there are members of the Church outside the walls of the Orthodox Church and that the Church of Christ is more inclusive than each and every member “church” of the so-called “World Council of Churches”;
    • Enshrine mixed-marriages (with heretics) through false economia;
    • Enshrine John Zizioulas’ concept about the “human person”: Anathema!
33. To those who claim that not participating in the ecumenical movement creates a stumbling block to the Gospel of Christ, through lack of mutual understanding and cooperation with heretics: Anathema!
34. To those who deny the truth that the Church of Christ is One and Unique, just as Christ the Head of the Church is One and Unique, having One Body which is the Orthodox Church: Anathema!
35. To the Protestant theory of “the invisible Church as the Mystical Body of Christ”, where visible unity is achieved through cooperation and dialogue, forming the idea that the Orthodox Church and heterodox congregations are in the same House but have divisions between them: Anathema!
36. To those who do not believe that only the Orthodox Church is the Church of Christ: Anathema!
37. To the co-mingling of the Local Orthodox Churches with heterodox groups into a so-called “fellowship of churches that accept our Lord Jesus Christ as their God and Saviour”, and to the idea that by this, the Orthodox would give a common witness with these groups: Anathema!
38. To those who affirm that the Church of Christ is in construction, “Christ gathering His children together to build His Church”, where the children are the Orthodox together with the heterodox groups: Anathema!
39. To the Theosophists, Mormons, Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Scientologists, Gnostics, Esoterics, Neo-Marxists and to those who mix the Orthodox teaching with pseudo-scientific theories and pagan teachings: Anathema!
40. To the Sergianists and to all those who are obedient to the secular state and the political powers to the detriment of the obedience to Christ and His Church: Anathema!
41. To the so-called Christian yoga, bio-energy, homeopathy, crystal therapy, therapeutic radiesthesia, reiki therapy, acupuncture, neo-shamanism, practices and objects related to classical shamanism and witchcraft wrapped in science (crystals, healing metals, Torser – the star of bioenergetic medicine, anti-WiFi/4G/5G charms): Anathema!
42. To the theistic evolutionary theory that states that the world and man are continuously evolving since the primordial state of creation, and denying the existence of a complete and unchanged human nature throughout time, thereby negating the purpose of the Incarnation of Christ by which He fully assumed human nature and opened up the possibility of salvation to the whole human race: Anathema!
43. To the heresy of papal primacy and to any other form of papism or semi-papism introduced into the Orthodox synodal collegiality system (which has its origin in the way the Apostles gathered fraternally in the Synod of Jerusalem), a heresy proliferated today especially by the Patriarchate of Constantinople: Anathema!
44. To the heretical theology of “Primus sine paribus” as expressed in the anti-canonical “Tomos of Autocephaly” granted by the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the schismatic Ukrainian construct of Epiphany Dumenko and his pseudo-synod: Anathema! To the Tomos of Autocephaly: Anathema! To Epiphany Dumenko and his pseudo-synod: Anathema!
45. To the 1991 Synodal decisions of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch which accepted inter-communion and concelebration with members of the so-called Syriac Orthodox Church, who being Miaphysite heretics are followers of the heresy of Severus, condemned by the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Ecumenical Councils: Anathema!
46. To the “Canonical Resources and Policies for the Reception of the Heterodox” Document of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland which contains:
    • The reduction of the Orthodox meaning of the term “salvation” from the meaning of “acquiring eternal life in the Kingdom of God” to that of “spiritual health”;
    • The notion of the ubiquity of the Grace of Salvation outside the Orthodox Church, with the intention of introducing the false idea that there is salvation outside the One and Unique Body of Christ (a heresy condemned by the Synod of Carthage in 258);
    • The redefinition of the terms ‘economia’ and ‘akribeia’ contrary to their well-established meanings according to the Holy Fathers and the Holy Canons;
    • The introduction of a new so-called canon which stipulates the excommunication of lay persons and the deposition of clergymen who receive a so-called corrective baptism (that is those who are baptised Orthodox after having been received into the Church in a false manner by Chrismation); 
    • The recognition of “baptism” outside the Orthodox Church on the condition that it was performed “in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, with water by a church that professes a trinitarian faith”: Anathema!
47. To the heretical teachings of Father Professor Dumitru Staniloae (teachings on ecclesiology such as the heresy of incomplete churches): Anathema!
48. To the sorcerer and theosophist Arsenie Boca: Anathema!
49. To Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch and to those who follow his heretical teachings: Anathema!
50. To all heretics: Anathema!

Below is the letter which was sent to His Beatitude Patriarch John X and the Holy Synod of the Church of Antioch, by Father Matthew (Ion-Valentin) Vulcanescu and the members of the parish of Saint Edward the Martyr and Saint Paraskevi of Rome in Liverpool, on the 16 October 2024.

ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF SAINT EDWARD THE MARTYR
AND SAINT PARASKEVI OF ROME
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland

His Beatitude Patriarch John X
And the Holy Synod of the Church of Antioch
Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East
Patriarchal Residence
Balamand
Koura
Lebanon

16 October 2024

Our Father, Your Beatitude the Patriarch,
And Your Eminences, the Metropolitans, Members of the Holy Synod,

We have waited with all love and patience for the response to the open letter that we sent to Your Beatitude and the Holy Synod, dated 6 December 2023[1], signed by Father Matthew (Ion-Valentin) Vulcanescu and the members of our parish of Saint Edward the Martyr and Saint Paraskevi of Rome in Liverpool. The same letter was re-sent on 21 August 2024 and 29 August 2024, but we have not received any response.

It has been brought to the attention of Your Beatitude and the Holy Synod the burning issues arising from our Orthodox conscience in relation to the struggle to preserve the Truth of the Faith unaltered. This struggle needs concrete actions such as: withdrawal from the “World Council of Churches” (WCC), condemnation of the heterodox ecclesiology of the so-called Synod of Crete[2], annulment and condemnation of the so-called “Chambesy Agreements” (1989, 1990 and 1993) and the 1991 synodal decision for inter-communion with the Monophysites[3], as well as the adoption of anathemas that condemn all heresies (including Miaphysitism/Monophysitism, Papism, Protestantism, the pan-heresy of ecumenism) and the implementation of the synodal decision of the Holy Synod of the Church of Antioch of 1933 to receive every heretic who comes into the Church by Holy Orthodox Baptism with triple immersion[4].

The same issues were also brought to the attention of our Metropolitan, His Eminence Silouan Oner, in a letter sent on 12 December 2023[5]. Unfortunately, instead of providing support and counsel in resolving these issues of Orthodox conscience, His Eminence Silouan responded in an unexpected manner, by initiating persecution against Father Matthew (Ion-Valentin) Vulcanescu, which led to his suspension and deposition[6]. We do not recognise this deposition, which is canonically null and void according to Canon 3 of the Third Ecumenical Council[7].

Due to the public preaching of heresy by His Eminence and His refusal to publicly confess the Orthodox Faith (by not proclaiming anathemas against heretics), our parish has unanimously voted to cease the commemoration of the name of His Eminence at all the holy services of the Church on 20 December 2023[8], in accordance with Canon 15 of the 1st-2nd Council of Constantinople[9]. The public preaching of heresy can be demonstrated in the following public documents of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland: the letter to the clergy of the Archdiocese dated 16 December 2023[10], the “Canonical Resources and Policies for the Reception of the Heterodox” document[11] and the article from “The Narthex” newsletter[12] which confirms the practice of communing Monophysites in our Archdiocese.

The document mentioned above, the “Canonical Resources and Policies for the Reception of the Heterodox” issued by the Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland, was brought to Your attention on 3 October 2024. This document blasphemes Holy Baptism,  describing it as “the exceptional remedy”, redefines the Truth of Salvation in an unorthodox manner, creates new canons without synodal approval and forbids the baptism of the heterodox, recognising their “baptism” done in the name of the Trinity (but which would need to be “perfected” by the sacrament of Chrismation).

Saint Gregory Palamas said that there are three kinds of atheism: classical atheism, heresy, and silence at times of heresy[13]. We do not want to be atheists, rather we want to confess the Orthodox Faith. At the same time, we see how the agreements with the Monophysites, the inter-communion with them and all the other ecclesiological deviations continue to work within the Church like a cancer. Faced with this situation, the silence of Your Beatitude and of Your Eminences, the Metropolitans, Members of the Holy Synod, is not just a type of atheism but also the way in which heresy spreads in the Church.

Professor Dimitrios Tselengidis says that when “others do not have the same opinion regarding faith, it is better to disagree than to agree with evil. It is then preferable to obey God rather than men and not to pass over in silence those things that God has commanded us to confess.”[14]

The Holy Apostle Paul says: “A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.”[15]

Unfortunately, when the shepherds are asleep, the wolves devour the flock. Yet, our intention was to bring Your attention to this danger with all love, waiting for Your public confession of the Orthodox Faith. The lack of pastoral care for our souls shows that You have turned from being our Fathers into step-Fathers whom we can no longer trust. Until Your Orthodox Faith is restored, any action against Father Matthew (Ion-Valentin) Vulcanescu and against us, either synodal or archdiocesan, is not canonical and therefore we cannot recognise it.

We remain in the Orthodox Church of Antioch, in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland, continuing to be in communion with all those who confess the Orthodox Faith and fencing ourselves from all those who allow heresy to spread within the Body of Christ.

With all love and prayer in Christ, we remain faithful to the Church in which the disciples of Christ were first called Christians[16] and we await the moment when Your Beatitude and Your Eminences, the members of the Holy Synod, will publicly reject and anathematise the participation in the “World Council of Churches” (WCC), the Agreements with the Anti-Chalcedonians [the so-called Chambesy agreements (1989, 1990 and 1993), and 1991 synodal statement of the Church of Antioch on the relations with the ‘Syriac Orthodox Church’, that decided to allow inter-communion and concelebration with heretics that have been condemned by the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Ecumenical Councils] and the “Canonical Resources and Policies for the Reception of the Heterodox” Document of Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland.

Remaining faithful to the Orthodox Church of Antioch,

With all our love in Christ,

Protopresbyter Matthew (Ion-Valentin) Vulcanescu

Parish of Saint Edward the Martyr and Saint Paraskevi of Rome
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland

The letter continues with the signatures of the parish members and endnotes.

Endnotes

1.  Protopresbyter Matthew Vulcanescu and Parish of Saint Edward the Martyr and Saint Paraskevi of Rome in Liverpool, Open Letter to Patriarch John X and the Holy Synod of the Church of Antioch, 6 December 2023, accessed 13 October 2024, https://orthodoxchurchliverpool.co.uk/2023/12/12/open-letter-to-patriarch-john-x-and-the-holy-synod/.

2.  Holy and Great Council, ‘Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World’, 2016, accessed 13 October 2024, https://www.holycouncil.org/rest-of-christian-world/.

3.  Joint Commission Of The Theological Dialogue Between The Orthodox Church And The Oriental Orthodox Churches, First Agreed Statement, 20-24 June 1989, accessed 13 October 2024, https://orthodoxjointcommission.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/first-agreed-statement-1989/;Joint Commission Of The Theological Dialogue Between The Orthodox Church And The Oriental Orthodox Churches, Second Agreed Statement, 23-28 Sep. 1990, accessed 13 October 2024, 

https://orthodoxjointcommission.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/second-agreed-statement-1990/.

Joint Commission Of The Theological Dialogue Between The Orthodox Church And The Oriental Orthodox Churches, Recommendations On Pastoral Issues, 23-28 Sep. 1990, accessed 13 October 2024, https://orthodoxjointcommission.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/recommendations-on-pastoral-issues-1990/.

Joint Commission Of The Theological Dialogue Between The Orthodox Church And The Oriental Orthodox Churches, Communique: Proposals for Lifting Anathemas (1993), 1-6 Nov 1993. accessed 13 October 2024, https://orthodoxjointcommission.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/proposals-for-lifting-anathemas-1993/.

4.  Decision no. 8, 1933: J. Lacombe, Échos d’Orient, vol. 33, no. 173 (in French) (Paris, 1934), p. 99; Orthodox Ethos, On the Reception of the Heterodox into the Orthodox Church (Uncut Mountain Press, 2023), p. 299.

5.  Protopresbyter Matthew Vulcanescu and Parish of Saint Edward the Martyr and Saint Paraskevi of Rome in Liverpool, Open Letter to Metropolitan Silouan of the British Isles and Ireland, 12 December 2023, accessed 13 October 2024, https://orthodoxchurchliverpool.co.uk/2023/12/12/open-letter-to-metropolitan-silouan/.

6.  Metropolitan of the Orthodox Christian British Isles and Ireland, Silouan. Letter to Father Matthew Vulcanescu, 18 December 2023; Metropolitan of the Orthodox Christian British Isles and Ireland, Silouan. Encyclical to Archdiocese December 2023, 23 December 2023.

7.  Canon 3 of the Third Ecumenical Council, “And if any of the clerics in any city or village were stopped from the priesthood by Nestorius and those with him because they thought rightly, we have entitled them to be restored to their own rank. And in general, we decree that those clerics who think alike with the Orthodox and the Ecumenical Synod are not to obey in any way whatever the bishops who have apostatised, or those who remove themselves (ἀποστατήσασιν ἤ ἀφισταμένοις Ἐπισκοποις), or think differently from the Synod.”:
Agapios, Hieromonk and Nicodemus, Monk, The Rudder (Pedalion) of the Metaphorical Ship of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Orthodox Christians (The Orthodox Christian Educational Society, 2005), p. 228; Protopresbyter Matthew Vulcanescu and Parish of Saint Edward the Martyr and Saint Paraskevi of Rome in Liverpool, Response Letter to Metropolitan Silouan of the British Isles and Ireland, 28 December 2023, accessed 13 October 2024, https://orthodoxchurchliverpool.co.uk/2023/12/28/official-letter-to-his-eminence-metropolitan-silouan-oner-we-do-not-recognise-and-do-not-accept-the-deposition/.

8.  Protopresbyter Matthew Vulcanescu and Parish of Saint Edward the Martyr and Saint Paraskevi of Rome in Liverpool, Letter of Cessation of Commemoration of Metropolitan Silouan of the British Isles and Ireland, 20 December 2023, accessed 13 October 2024, https://orthodoxchurchliverpool.co.uk/2023/12/20/the-parish-of-st-edward-the-martyr-and-st-paraskevi-of-rome-together-with-father-matthew-vulcanescu-ceases-commemoration-of-the-heretical-bishop-silouan-oner-and-communion-with-all-ecumenists/.

9.  Canon 15 of the 1st-2nd Council of Constantinople, “[…] But as for those who on account of some heresy condemned by the Holy Councils, or Fathers, withdrawing themselves from communion with their president, who, that is to say, is preaching the heresy publicly, and teaching it barehead in church, such persons not only are not subject to any canonical penalty on account of their having walled themselves off from any and all communion with the one called a Bishop before any conciliar or synodal verdict has been rendered, but, on the contrary, they shall be deemed worthy to enjoy the honour which befits them among Orthodox Christians. For they have defied, not Bishops, but pseudo-bishops and pseudo-teachers; and they have not sundered the union of the Church with any schism, but, on the contrary, have been sedulous to rescue the Church from schisms and divisions”:  Agapios and Nicodemus, The Rudder, p. 471.

10.  Metropolitan of the Orthodox Christian British Isles and Ireland, Silouan. Letter to Clergy December 2023, 16 December 2023.

11.  Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland, Canonical Resources and Policies for the Reception of the Heterodox, 11 January 2024.

12.  St Dunstan’s Antiochian Orthodox Church, The Narthex: The Newsletter of St Dunstan’s Antiochian Orthodox Church, Poole BH14 9JG, January-February 2024.

13.  Saint Gregory Palamas, “Letter to the most pious Monk Dionysios” Saint Gregory Palamas – Complete Works, Vol. 4. [Αγίου Γρηγορίου του Παλαμά Άπαντα τα Έργα, Τόμος Δ’] (in Greek) (Thessaloniki: Paterikai Ekdoseis “Grigorios o Palamas”, 1983), p. 404.

14.  Professor Dimitrios Tselengidis, “The Importance of dogma in dialogues with the heterodox for the unity in Christ” (lecture, Conference House of Culture in Constanța, 1 June 2010).

15.  Titus 3:10

16.  Acts 11:26

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