Church of the True Orthodox Christians of Greece (Auxentios Synod)
The Church of the True Orthodox Christians of Greece (Auxentios Synod) is a small old-calendar Orthodox Church in Greece .
Structures
The church consists of seven dioceses in Greece. Its head is the Archbishop of Athens and all of Greece.
The Church is orthodox in her teaching, she follows the Byzantine rite and has the Julian calendar .
It is not recognized as canonical by other Orthodox churches .
history
In 1985 Archbishop Auxentios Pastras left the Church of the True Orthodox Christians of Greece (Chrysostomos Synod) , which he had chaired for 22 years, together with four other bishops and founded his own Church of the True Orthodox Christians of Greece . In 1986 three bishops left the Church.
This year 35 clergy from the USA joined the Church around the Transfiguration Monastery in Boston / Brooklyn, as did some congregations in France . A Boston eparchy was formed in 1988, a Lyon eparchy in 1989 and a Toronto eparchy in 1991 in Canada. In that year some parishes from the Russian Catacomb Church were added and soon afterwards they formed the Kazan Eparchy. In 1994, after further conversion by priests of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad, the Exarchate Russia was formed.
In 1996 Archbishop Maxim consecrated ten new bishops with a bishop Demetrios, who allegedly belonged to the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria . After the sudden death of Demetrios a few days later, the western eparchies left the church, and shortly afterwards the Russian parishes too. The Holy Orthodox Church of North America was founded in Boston .
In 2009, some Australian congregations joined the Church of True Christians in Greece and in 2010 formed their own eparchy. In 2011 they left the church.
literature
- Vladimir Moss: A Short History of the True Orthodox Church of Greece (1970-2000) . The Guildfordian , 2001. ( online )