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Old June 16th, 2007 #1
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Dissidents in the ranks of the Russian Orthodox Church – the clergy from the Chukotka Autonomous Area led by Bishop Diomidus –



have again appealed to the leaders of the Church urging them to speak up more vigorously in condemnation of the vices of political and social life in this country.

Clerics of the diocese of Anadyr and Chukotka have addressed Patriarch Alexy II with an open letter, in which they name some of the vices, including gay and lesbians pride marches, official permission of abortions, drink abuse, and drug addiction.

Officials at Moscow Patriarchate describe the letter an instance of shallow politicking and claim that standing behind it are lobbyists of some kind who would like to seed mutiny in the Church.

However, a number of clerics say the position voiced by their brethren from the easternmost diocese of the Orthodox world evokes a broad enough support among rank-and-file believers.

The second open letter signed by Bishop Diomidus contains open criticism of supreme hierarchs of the Russian Church. June 6, the Chukotka diocesan council considered and approved the text of that accusatory letter.

Apart from that, Bishop Diomidus gave an interview to the anti-Church news portal Credo.ru, where he said numerous clerics and lay have already spoken out in support of the letter.

Chukotka priest demand, among other things, that the Church “denounce democracy as a political system contradicting the ecclesiastical teaching about the legitimate state power bestowed by the Lord.”

“We see the fruits of that democracy in our everyday life, for instance, in resettlement and strangling domination of non-Russians that carry the threat of destroying the Russian people as a nation,” the open letter from Chukotka says.

Also, it urges the leaders of the Russian Church “to step up castigation of the vices of nowadays state, political and social life,” including the pride marches of sodomites, abortions and euthanasia, sweeping vaccinations, drink abuse, drug addiction, the promulgation of sexual education programs, the spread of family planning, as well as aggression and violence. [Aggression and violence should be concentrated on the unrighteous and heathen.]

The Chukotka diocese proposes to excommunicate anyone who commits a sin on at least one of these items.

Besides, the clerics call on the Patriarch Alexy II to condemn the ecumenical movement /which the letter describes as “willingness to melt all religions into one”/ an globalization, including adoption of the Tax Payer Id Number that, according to the Chukotka clerics, contains a covert code of the Number of the Beast.

Bishop Diomodus made the first appeal to the top hierarchy of the Church in February, calling on the spiritual leaders to repent and confess deviations from the Creed. He accused the Moscow Patriarchate then of “acceptance of the heretical teaching of ecumenism, and spiritual accommodationism that subjugates Church power to the government.

Moscow-based daily Kommersant writes the Patriarchate refrained from punishing Bishop Diomidus the previous time, asserting that it was some kind of lobbyists who spurred on the bishop in a bid to disrupt the Act on Canonical Communications between the Russian Orthodox Church reporting to Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia /the two Churches signed it May 17/.

“Bishop Diomidus has become the emblematic leader of a very powerful – or I’d even say the most powerful – section of the so-called active believers,” Credo.ru news portal said quoting a certain hegumen Gregory. “The phrase ‘active believers’ usually implies the people who have very few seats on the administrative hierarchy of the Russian Church but are quite numerous among rank-and-file priests, monks /them in particular/ and the lay.”

“These are truly believing people who are ready to suffer in the name of their faith and even sustain sacrifices,” hegumen Gregory said.

He claimed that “these groups of ‘devotees’ avoided open conflicts with the clerical authorities” for quite some time, but Bishop Diomid’s appeal “aroused affectionate attitude among many partisan factions inside the Church.”

Kommersant quoted priest Vladimir Vigilyansky, the press secretary of Moscow Patriarchate, as saying: “This is politicking that runs counter to the canonical rules of the Church.”

He linked the letter of Chukotka clerics to the forthcoming parliamentary and presidential elections. “This letter is a political game that covers up certain people who would like to produce a mutiny in the Church community,” the Rev Vigilyansky said.

“The letter mentions many things from the right angle, and yet such issues should be settled by clerical rather than political methods, like the writing of open letters,” believes Leonid Simonovich, the chairman of the Union of Orthodox Gonfalon-Bearers, a public organization closely linked to the Russian Church.

He surmises that “a rather small group of believers may render support to the Chukotka clerics, but this will not produce a major split within the Russian Orthodox Church.”

As for Bishop Diomidus himself, he told Credo.ru believers regularly send him e-mails and ordinary letters voicing support to the address and even expressing the wish to undersign it.

When a reporter asked him who of the hierarchs, apart from Bishop Hippolytus from Sub-Carpathian Ukraine, might voice support to the letter, he named the Archbishop of Vladivostok and Primorsky territory Benjamin. The M Rev Diomidus claimed that the latter archbishop has already supported his appeal but has not made it publicly yet.

Archbishop Benjamin officially dissociated himself from the address, however. The press service of the Vladivostok diocese issued a statement June 10 denying his involvement in the open letter.

“It is true that I published my opinion in the mass media in the format of a discussion a few years ago,” the archbishop said in a statement.

“I said then that Church problems should be settled at the National Council of Bishops. I also spoke out against ecumenism and voiced an opinion on some other problems. But I think such issued should be settled calmly and with observance of Church postulations and not in the form of ‘secular rallies’ or open letters,” the Russkaya Liniya agency quoted him as saying.

He said he was surprised that someone found it appropriate to publish the letter during the run-up to the signing of the Act on Canonical Communications and the celebration of another anniversary since Alexy II’s accession to the Patriarch’s Office.

Publication of the first letter divided the believers into two uneven camps, says the internet portal KM.ru. “The vast majority of them recognized the importance of the issues raised in it, condemning the very fact of its publication at the same time,” the portal indicated.

”In fact, the M Rev Diomidus himself violated the written canons and unwritten rules of the Church by criticizing the supreme hierarchs and by doing it right across the board,” KM.ru said.

“The people who claimed that his address aimed to disrupt the signing of the Act on Canonical Communications happened to be right,” the portal said quoting Kirill Frolov, the president of a public association called the Union of Orthodox Christian Citizens. “They were also right in saying that this was far from the last surprise in store for us.”

“We can’t sit idle and silent at a time when the top hierarchs of our Church are accused of deviations from the purity of faith and of heresies they don’t have anything to do with,” Frolov said. “These accusations are libelous and they’re promulgated and fanned by the foes of the Church trying to disrupt the much-awaited restoration of unity between two branches of the Russian Church and to create the myth of a ‘big bang’ inside it.”
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The upper class is supposed to supply government of the people, by the people, for the people, however as usual it is corrupt and serves its own interests at the expense of the people. Bishop Diomid represents the Russian people here. Although in that area, the Christians work as missionaries with the natives.
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