Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia in Phrygia of the Eastern orthodox, cites Nestorian slander against St. Cyril of Alexandria, claiming he bribed the Court of Ephesus and "terrorized the city with a private army of monks"!
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“Symeon the New Theologian (949–1022), arguably the most important Byzantine religious thinker between John of Damascus in the eighth century and Gregory Palamas in the fourteenth, often presents salvation as a heavenly marriage. Scholars have long noted Symeon’s frequent use of erotic and nuptial imagery to explore the relationship between the monk and God. What scholars have generally failed to notice or account for is that much of this imagery is homoerotic.”
Symeon wrote about mystics as the thighs in the body of Christ. His language suggests that “thighs” may have been a euphemism for “genitals.” He builds on the Apostle Paul’s Biblical metaphor of people playing various roles as members of the body of Christ. Some play the role of hands, while others are the shoulders, the breast, the legs and feet, and the belly.
Symeon wrote about mystics as the thighs in the body of Christ. His language suggests that “thighs” may have been a euphemism for “genitals.” He builds on the Apostle Paul’s Biblical metaphor of people playing various roles as members of the body of Christ. Some play the role of hands, while others are the shoulders, the breast, the legs and feet, and the belly.
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In 1910, Raphael of Brooklyn, an Eastern Orthodox bishop, "sanctioned an interchange of ministrations with the Episcopalians in places where members of one or the other communion are without clergy of their own."[7] Raphael stated that in places "where there is no resident Orthodox Priest", an Anglican priest could administer Marriage, Holy Baptism, and the Blessed Sacrament to an Orthodox layperson.[8] In 1912, however, Bishop Raphael ended the intercommunion after becoming uncomfortable with the fact that the Anglican Communion contained different churchmanships within Her, e.g. High Church, Evangelical, etc.[7]
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Gregory V of Constantinople was a Freemason who was canonized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate on April 10, 1921:
“Among numerous freemasons who were at the forefront of the Greek Revolution in 1821, were the renown Paleon Patron Germanos, The Ecumenical Patriarch and martyr Gregorius V,”
Source: https://www.grandlodge.gr/the-history-of--freemasonry-in-greece-weg-53906.html
“Among numerous freemasons who were at the forefront of the Greek Revolution in 1821, were the renown Paleon Patron Germanos, The Ecumenical Patriarch and martyr Gregorius V,”
Source: https://www.grandlodge.gr/the-history-of--freemasonry-in-greece-weg-53906.html