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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Greek Orthodox Hierarchs Divided Over World Council of Churches


"Civil War" has broken out in the Church of Greece between the self-proclaimed traditional Orthodox hierarchs and those hierarchs engaged in dialogues with other Christian Churches.

The battle has assumed such proportions that some believers signed a "Declaration and Confession of Walling-Off" which among other things warns Bishops that "to remain in the Orthodox Faith and Truth, we will abstain from ecclesiastical Sacraments and Acts performed by clergy who commune and mention heretics and heretical bishops, and we will request bishops and priests who do not commemorate them and who renounce Ecumenism."

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