Οἱ κοινωνοῦντες μέ τόν Βαρθολομαῖον κοινωνοῦν καί μέ τόν «πάπαν» -- Του κ. Δημητρίου Χατζηνικολάου

Τό 1969, ὁ τότε Πρόεδρος τῆς Ρωσσικῆς Ὀρθοδόξου Ἐκκλησίας τῆς Διασπορᾶς (ΡΟΕΔ), Ἅγιος Φιλάρετος, ἔγραψε ἐπιστολήν στόν «ἀρχιεπίσκοπον» Β & Ν Ἀμερικῆς Ἰάκωβον (γνωστόν καί ὡς Σιάκωβον), ὅπου, μεταξύ ἄλλων, ἐπέκρινε τόν «πατριάρχην» Ἀθηναγόραν ὅτι ἔχει γράψει στά Δίπτυχα τοῦ Πατρ/χείου Κων-λεως τόν «πάπαν» καί τούς ἀρχηγούς τῶν ἄλλων αἱρέσεων. Ἡ πληροφορία αὐτή οὐδέποτε διεψεύσθη! Συνεπῶς, οἱ κοινωνοῦντες μέ τόν Βαρθολομαῖον κοινωνοῦν καί μέ τόν «πάπαν». Ἰδού τό σχετικόν ἀπόσπασμα τῆς ἐν λόγῳ ἐπιστολῆς:

«We therefore regard it as our duty to protest strongly against the distortion of the dogma of the Church so insistently made by His Holiness Patriarch Athenagoras and Your Eminence. We protest against the "Ecumenical Doxology" and against the inclusion in the Diptychs by His All Holiness Athenagoras of the name of the Pope of Rome and of "all the confessions of the East and West," which was announced in His Holiness' Christmas Message. This inclusion in the Diptychs has always been testimony that a certain person is recognized as Orthodox. If the Fifth Ecumenical Council ordered the name of Theodore of Mopsuestia stricken from the Diptychs when his teaching was found unorthodox, then how can any Patriarch or Bishop now include in the Diptychs those who do not even nominally belong to the Orthodox Church, and who, on the contrary, continue to proclaim doctrines inconsistent with her dogmas?»

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