The truth about Bishop Petros of Astoria, who many consider today a defender of the Orthodox faith but in reality he wasn't at all:
During this exact same period, the now late Bishop Petros of Astoria refused to sign the encyclical, which was the Confession of Faith, of June 5, 1974, and which was entitled So Do We Believe, So Do We Proclaim (Outo Phronoumen, Outo Laloumen), even though the Sacred Synod was patient with him for a whole year (from 1973) to conform with the correct profession of the faith of our Church. Therefore the Sacred Synod, as it was obliged to do, "removed his name from the list of its members and took away from him the exarchate of our Church in America." Some of our clergy also disagreed with this encyclical and struck out disturbing the accord, even though this encyclical simply repeated the already crystallized position of the profession of the faith of our Sacred Struggle as it was handed down to us by the confessor of faith our First Hierarch the former Metropolitan of Florina, Chrysostomos Kavouridis...
... Especially concerning Metropolitan Chrysostomos Kiousis of Thessalonica, whose case is particularly interesting to us, since in a few years, for what sins only the Lord knows, he would become the adulterously usurper of the Archbishop's throne. Father Nicholas relates that as an archimandrite he served in Jerusalem with a Presanctified Lamb that had been consecrated by a priest of the Jerusalem Patriarchate while a new calendar bishop was presiding at the bishop's throne and was very leniently punished by the Sacred Synod with a twenty-day suspension which he never performed! He was craving so much to be consecrated a bishop even then that he sought to be consecrated in a coup d’état even with a new-calendar bishop but was not successful. Once a bishop, he made multiple invasions into the dioceses of other bishops. He conspired with Bishop Petros of Astoria who was both outside of the Sacred Synod and outside of the true profession of Faith. (We here note that their first concelebration took place in Thessalonica in the end of 1974.)
Short excerpt feom the book of His Beatitude Makarios Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1973-2003 - Thirty years of Ecclesiastical Developments
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