OCA retired Bp. Tikhon comment Puhalo

Limited sharing: An interesting (& little known), version of some late ROCOR/Metropolia church history, if true, from retired OCA Bp. Tikhon-Fitzgerald    Inbox  Private & Confidential

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:51 AM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original   This fascinating comment, his historical recounting,  is under the subject article on Lev Puhalo, and is found on Mononackhos blog. Why pay attention to anything that retired OCA Bp. Tikhon -Fitzgerald [living in Los Angeles, California] says?...on any subject? Because, in spite of his wrong  positions,[ such as his trust in the MP, etc.],  he does know a lot of church history and liturgics, theology,  etc. Therefore, his astute comments are always..., interesting, ...to say the least, even  when we may disagree with them...or some of them.  And he often comments on this (pro-OCA) blog. He is an outspoken critic of his own OCA...[ a major reason that he was RETIRED], .which is his greatest value to us who, also, do not trust that slippery jurisdiction, which was once, canonically,  part of the Russian Church Abroad. arrow View all comments Bishop Tikhon Fitzgerald says: December 14, 2013 at 10:59 am http://www.monomakhos.com/puhalo-rants-again-on-transgenderism-and-intersexuality/#comment-66554. Guido, even a “schismatic vagante” can identify a ‘schismatic vagante,” ok? Let’s recall, as well, that all the ROCOR Bishops on the territory of the United States of America sat on the Greater Sobor of Bishops of the Metropolia in the 1930s and 1940s. It was only when, after WWII, that the ROCOR Bishops, members of the Greater Sobor of Bishops of the Metropolia left the Metropolia voluntarily after the popular vote at an AAC accepted the Spiritual Primacy of the Patriarch of Moscow and voted to commemorate him first during the Divine Services was accepted by the MINORITY of the Greater Sobor of Bishops, including Metropolitan Theophilus. Even so, after that break, in the 1950s and into the 1960s, the Church of Christ the Savior in Manhattan acknowledged and commemorated both Metropolltan Anastassy and Metropolitan Leonty—one month Anastassy would visit and serve; the next month Metropolitan Leonty would visit and serve. Bishop Kyril (Yonchev) was received WILLY-NILLY from ROCOR into the OCA, and clergy were mutually incardinated even without letters of dismissal by both ROCOR and OCA. Puhalo was ordained Deacon by a Bishop of ROCOR. He was deposed by the Holy Synod of ROCOR. Metropolitan Irinej of the “Free” Serbs declared that the deposition was invalid because ROCOR is “schismatic,” therefor invalid! How is it then that, by ordaining him to the Priesthood he accepted as canonical the ordination of Puhalo to the Diaconate? I find the man to be socially acceptable and even likeable accept for his vain advocacy of the outre and his historical and apparently everlasting jealousy of the sainted Seraphim (Rose). There are many Lutheran clergy and people whom I like and with whom I am good friends; nevertheless. I don’t consider Lutheran ‘Bishops” to be bishops at all. Same with “Archbishop Lazar.” As for the Toll Houses, ‘aerial” or not, I’ll continue to rely on established dogmatic authorities and commentators as, for example, Metropolitan Makarius of Moscow and Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky, and I refuse to IDLY theorize about them. Rating: 0 (from 2 votes)