Dan Everiss
<oregdan@hotmail.com> | Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:02 PM |
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*From original article-found on: <http://remnantrocor.blogspot.com>
This is what is on Wikipedia [so BEWARE!..as anyone can put...any... information on that site,
whether it is verified or not, true or false] about Jerusalem Patriarch IRENAIOS (Skopelitis):
This worldly official version of these thorny controversial matters, is not the full story
and it is not what we think about him
or of his enemies and detractors.
To our Vladyka Metropolitan Agafangel and our ROCA Holy Synod, Patriarch Irenaios
is the legitimate, [though wrongfully dethroned], true Jerusalem Patriarch and we are in co-communion with him.
Rd. Daniel
Biography [edit]
of Patriarch of Jerusalem Irenaios, born: Emmanuel Skopelitis:
Irenaios was born on the island of
Samos, Greece as Emmanouil Skopelitis, in April 1939, and came to
Jerusalem in 1953.
He served for many years as
Exarch of the Holy Sepulchre in
Athens.
Controversy and dismissal[edit]
A few years into Irenaios' patriarchate, he was accused of selling several parcels of church-owned land in the
Old City of Jerusalem to
Israeli developers.
As most of the Orthodox Christians in the area are
Palestinian, and the land was in an Arab-populated area that most
Palestinians hoped would become as a part of a future Palestinian
capital, these accusations caused a great deal of concern among Church
members. On March 19, 2005, the
Palestinian Authority formed a commission to investigate these allegations.
After a thorough investigation by the commission, the commission
EXONERATED Patriarch Ireneos and concluded that
the accusations made against him were "A very well calculated plan ...
schemed by a number of clerics opposing Ireneos in collaboration with
Israeli Extreme Right Wingers. Their interest
converged in the aim of getting rid of Ireneos step by step." The report
also concluded that "In accordance with the applicable law in East
Jerusalem, Patriarch Ireneos is still the legitimate Patriarch enjoying
full powers." [1]
Some
Orthodox Church leaders in Jerusalem announced on May 5, 2005 in a
letter that they had broken off contact (some called it boycotting) with
Patriarch Irenaios, and regarded him as dismissed as Patriarch of
Jerusalem.
The decision reached by the
Holy Synod of Jerusalem of the
Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre was made final on May 6, 2005 by a
two-thirds vote of that body. As far as the Church leaders were
concerned, Irenaios ceased to be Patriarch from that point. On 24 May
2005 a special pan-Orthodox Conference was convened
in
Constantinople ( Istanbul) to review the decisions of the Holy Synod of Jerusalem. The pan-Orthodox Conference under the presidency of the
Ecumenical Patriarch voted overwhelmingly to confirm the decision of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher and to strike Irenaios' name from the
diptychs. On 30 May, the Synod of Jerusalem chose
Metropolitan Cornelius of Petra to serve as
locum tenens pending the election of a replacement for Irenaios.
The Holy Synod of Jerusalem went further. On June 16, 2005 it announced that Irenaios had been
demoted to the rank of
monk. [2]
This action is now widely viewed as being uncanonical. Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew has also said the defrocking does not have any
validity, and is not recognized by any Orthodox Church. Since then
Irenaios has not left his apartment and is de facto imprisoned there. [3]
Theophilos III was elected as the new Patriarch on 22 August 2005 by the Synod. The election was confirmed by the pan-Orthodox
Synod of Istanbul (Constantinople) and he was enthroned on 22 November 2005.
By a longstanding tradition, the dismissal of a Patriarch of
Jerusalem and the election of a replacement requires the approval or
recognition of the governments in the regions of the Patriarchate's
authority - presently,
Israel, the
Palestinian Authority, and
Jordan. Jordan had recognized the dismissal by June 2005. Ireneos
continued to be recognized by Israel as the Orthodox Patriarch of
Jerusalem until December 2007, and Israel continued to invite him to
official government functions. As of 20 December 2007,
the governments of Jordan and the Palestinian Authority and Israel all
now recognise Theophilos III as Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem. [4]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
Some Orthodox Wikipedia history of Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin):.
(*Warning: This information may not be totally correct or it may be incomplete)-
Antonin (Kapustin)
From OrthodoxWiki
Antonin (Kapustin) was a
monastic clergyman of the
Church of Russia.
He was a noted byzantologist and honorary member of many academies and
scientific societies. He is noted for his activities in Greece and the
Holy Land establishing ecclesiastical facilities and support for Russian
pilgrims.
Life
Andrew Kapustin was born on
August 12 , 1817 in the village of Baturino in the province of Perm
in to a priestly family. He attended the Kiev Theological Academy, where
he taught after his graduation. Entering
monasticism, he was
tonsured as
monk with the name Antonin and rose to the rank of
archimandrite.
A theologian and professor at the
Kiev Theological Academy, in 1847, Fr. Antonin was assigned to the
Church of the Savior, a
church in disrepair in Athens, Greece that had been purchased by the
Russian government of Tsar Alexander II to serve the Russian community
in Athens. He led the effort to restore the church. During his service
in Athens he also supervised archaeological
excavations under the church that revealed the ruins of an earlier
church and an even older Roman bath.
In 1860, Fr. Antonin served as the priest of the Russian embassy
church in Constantinople where he was introduced into a new circle of
acquaintances with influential Russians and Greeks in the Near East.
In 1865, Fr. Antonin joined, as chief, the
Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, a mission that had been officially established and recognized by the
Ottoman
Sultan in 1857. During Fr. Antonin's administration of the mission, he
worked intently to strengthen the mission and its responsibilities to
help Russian pilgrims to Jerusalem.
In accomplishing the task, he began a vigorous activity of land
acquisitions in Palestine and established hospices. These acquisitions
were also inspired as a means of resisting the activities by Protestants
and Roman Catholics who were active acquiring land
and buildings in Palestine.
In November 1868, Fr. Antonin made his first acquisition, that of the
Oak of Mamre, that according to the Scriptures was where the
Old Testament Patriarch Abraham provided hospitality to three
angels. In 1874, he had built near the Oak a hostel for the pilgrims.
Archim. Antonin, with
Igumen Parthenius, acquired land at the summit of the Mount of
Olives on which, in 1870, they built the Church of the Ascension with a
200 foot bell tower. Later, after Fr. Antonin's repose, Igumen
Parthenius established the Convent of the Ascension at
the site.
In 1871, Fr. Antonin acquired an extensive olive tree plantation upon
which were two buildings that were used to shelter Russian pilgrims.
The property was expanded with the purchase of adjacent lands. On this
land, Fr. Antonin directed that pilgrims who
wished to settle in Jerusalem had to build houses and plant the gardens
around them at their own expense. That is why there are no blocks of
cells
for monastics when Russian nuns formed a separate convent, the Gorneye
Convent, and began living there. The Church of the Meeting of the Most
Holy
Virgin Mary with St. Elizabeth was consecrated on
March 30,
1883 at the convent. This consecration led to the addition of this
feast to the Orthodox Liturgical calendar with the composition of the
service added to the
Menaion by Archim. Antonin [1].
In 1882, Archim. Antonin, with Conrad Shik, a German archaeologist
and architect, supervised the excavations of the plot of land acquired
by the Russian government in 1859 next the the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem The excavations known as the "Russian
Excavations", uncovered a number of archaeological findings dated to the
time of Christ, including the "needle's eye", and the Threshold of
Judgment Gate.
In 1886, Archim. Antonin purchased land in Jaffa, in southern
Tel-Aviv, on which the tomb of the righteous Tavifa (Acts: 9, 36) is
located. Initially, a garden was planted on the land. In 1894, a
temple was built, dedicated to the
Apostle Peter, that was
consecrated by
Gerasimus, Patriarch of Jerusalem,.
Archimandrite Antonin reposed on
March 24, 1894.
This VIDEO testimony of Nun Photini, spoken in Russian, but with a running Romanian language version visible at the bottom:
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Fotini, chileinița patriarhului ortodox întemnițat Irineu al
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Shared with us by Alex in Romania
See how significant is the role of the ROCOR in the end times. This is
why the Mystery of Iniquity works so hard to destroy the ROCOR. All
those who support the R-schisms participate with the antichrist.
email me for PDF in English
About Mother Photini:
Mother
Photini is the cell-attendant of the imprisoned patriarch Irenaios,[the
imprisoned, but legitimate canonical Patriarch of Jerusalem] -who is in
fact the only one currently
actively helping the imprisoned Patriarch Irenaios. Mother Photini was
born in Australia in a monarchist family of Russian immigrants belonging
to the
Black Hundreds movement
who fled the Bolshevik God fighting authorities. From an early age she
was raised in an Orthodox way and educated in the true spirit of the
fear of Christ and His Church.
In order to provide the basic needs for the imprisoned Patriarch
Irenaios, she has to work hard, sometimes all around the clock, as a
guide to pilgrims visiting the Holy Places, in spite of her own old
age. It is not uncommon to find her still with pilgrims
late at night, but she does it with all the love one can expect from a
true Orthodox Christian who sacrifices herself not only for those
needing spiritual guidance in these perilous times but for the aging
Patriarch himself, who was the subject of a few assasination
attempts by poisoning. The needs of the aging Patriarch, who refuses to
eat any kosher food which he consider "spiritually tainted", demand
much from her but she never complains. Because of this and other
reasons, it is practically impossible to reach the
Patriarch nowadays, in part also because some of those in charge with
the administration of the Holy Sepulchre make sure that those wishing to
see him are misguided that the Patriarch himself is also not willing to
receive anyone ...
Video
6 minutes
The Testimony of Mother Photini, the cell-attendant of the imprisoned Jerusalem Patriarch Irenaios:
My
dear brothers and sisters, please allow me to convey to you a very
important message since we, together with the members of our brotherhood
will live under the authority of our beloved
Patriarch Irenaios, a true martyr of our time. Through me, the unworthy
one nun Photini, the Patriarch would like to send you his blessings and
his prayers. At the same time he also asks that you may remember him in
your prayers, reminding us all that we do
now indeed live in the last days, and the coming of Antichrist is now
to be expected at any time.
What
is happening in your country, Russia, are unquestionably very difficult
trials, and, how should I say it, what is happening over there will
lead to the complete destruction of the
Orthodox Faith. Who could withstand, resist this?- I don’t know. As it
is written in the Apocalypse: as Christianity started in catacombs, so
it will also end, in catacombs.
Let
me bring to your attention some historical facts regarding the current
patriarch in Russia, whose name I will not mention again now, you know
who he is very well. Here’s what happened
here: in 2007 the two Churches united. On 17 May 2007, the two Churches,
the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile (ROCOR) and the Patriarchate of
Moscow, joined together and celebrated this important event.
While
this was happening, Patriarch Irenaios (of Jerusalem) was begging the
Church in Exile (ROCOR) not to rush towards unity but rather wait a
little longer. He told them that if they
would be patient they will be shown all the hidden inner workings, but
they did not listen and the enemies of humanity raced to destroy the
Church of Christ as quickly as they could. And it happened that in the
same year, only a little later, on August 29
2007, Kiril, who was yet only a Metropolitan back then, had an official
visit and met here at The Wailing Wall with his dear brothers, the
Hasidic Jews, to whom he solemnly promised publicly, live on Israel’s
television channel, the following:"My dear Hasidic
brothers, I, the next patriarch, will do for you everything in my power
to make sure that your dream will come true!”
And this promise he continually tries to fulfill.
(Photo of Church of All Russian Saints, in the Gorny Monastery, Ein Karem, Israel)
But
the second most important thing is this: in 2004 in the Gorny Monastery
(Mount Monastery) they began to build a church dedicated to All Russian
Saints. In 2007 the church was completed
and was awaiting to be sanctified, and on August 29, when Kiril came, he
consecrated the church to the memory of All Russian Saints. A few years
after his departure, in 2009 an order was given to have a small cave
uncovered in honor of Saint John the Baptist,
who is said to had lived in it, during his earlier years. When
excavations began, they came accross the archive of Antonin Kapustin
(Archimandrite, 1817-1894). It seems that when Khrushchev sold all the
estates,[church lands] the archive was hidden, being
buried in this cave, but upon this occasion, the archive was found,
uncovering a priceless treasure. To me, the sinner (mother Photini), was
given the opportunity to witness and examine this archive personally.
I’ve
read this archive and in there it was written the following:"I,
Archimandrite Antonin Kapustin, while working on the foundation of the
upper church of the Gorny Monastery dedicated
to the memory of All the Russian Saints, I had a terrible vision that I
would not be able to complete it, but that it will only be completed
right before the coming of the Antichrist and will be sanctified by the
Forerunner of the Antichrist.
The
Monastery was sanctified, of course, by Kiril-Gundayev, and Mark-Arndt
of Berlin-the betrayer of the Church in Exile. Here it is, here’s the
living proof.
I
begged them (the sisters of the monastery) to give this archive to me
for safekeeping, arguing that as a member of ROCOR and a foreigner in
this land, it will somehow be better protected,
as they would not dare do anything to me, but the sisters obviously did
not consider it appropriate to entrust it to me. They believed that they
should hand it over to the Abbess and then further on to others so that
many would find the truth and be saved,
but they were all miserably deceived. These are not the times when the
spread of Orthodoxy works like that anymore, but the time that leads to
perdition. The archive dissapeared and all the sisters who have read it
have perished, except for me the last one.
They all believed that nobody would listen to me anyway, myself being a
foreigner, but they were mistaken.
I
believe that God will still look in someone’s soul and somebody will
understand what is happening today, and who will listen to these words.
So you are running, and by running you are
doing the right thing, as in the catacombs is our only salvation.
Remember our imprisoned Patriarch (Irenaios) in your prayers, the martyr
of our times. God is still preserving him for a purpose. I still hope
and pray that he may be our last hope and light
until the very end.
May Christ save you all! May the Mother of God be always with you, forever and ever. Amen!
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