When we attempt to correct various wiki sites and add out Church someone qwho remains unknown to us deletes our listing due to their fear of us. So we have put this site together.
If anyone feels they can disprove our claims they may contact us with their evidence that we are in error.
We welcome inquiries from clergy assigned to one of the old world orthodox churches presently in schism with the American Church. If you seek valid sacramental authority we look forward to hearing from you.
If you are Orthodox, follow the teachings, canons and traditions of Orthodoxy and are seeking a new bishop and a canonically established Church home we look forward to hearing from you. Our clergy must sign a clergy declaration.
We also welcome inquiries from the Episcopal Clergy who are unhappy with the direction their Church has taken.
This site was established to show that the Orthodox jurisdictions that make up SCOBA disobey their own canons but attack others for the same or similar acts that were never formally called canonical violations.
The following ethnic, or old world, orthodox violate their own canons and in some instances the canons state the punishment for that act.
Canon 10 of the 85 canons;
If anyone prays in company with one who has been excommunicated, he shall be excommunicated himself.
Canon 11 of the 85 canons;
If anyone prays in company with one who has been deposed, he shall be deposed himself.
Canon 55 of the 85 canons;
If any clergyman should insult the bishop, let him be deposed from office.
Canon 6 of the 102 canons;
...no subdeacon, deacon or presbyter at all, after the ordination bestowed upon him, has permission to contract a matrimonial relationship for himself: if he should dare to do this, let him be deposed from office.
1and that any bishop is to be deprived of his bishopric and episcopate if he gives permission to a subdeacon or deacon (Includes a priest) to marry after ordination. (Rudder, Page 299)
The above examples support some of our claims such as;
An Antiochian priest who condemns Abp. Ofiesh for his marriage over 40 years after his repose in 1966. No synod with authority to call a tribunal took canonical action against Abp. Ofiesh probably because he stated publicly that "God told me to marry". Here a priest takes it upon himself to state and claim that the Archbishop retired then they claim he deposed himself and then they admit the Archbishop's widow stated Abp. Ofiesh intended to act as a married Archbishop. Then they claim he defacto deposed himself by his marriage. There is a problem with these claims since if no tribunal was held Archbishop Ofiesh could not be removed from his office according to the canons.