Comments on: EP: We haven’t omitted Polish hierarchs on purpose

By: Fabio L Leite

Fabio L Leite — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:59:50 +0000

Unfortunately, no they didn’t.

Even after the news were spread in the internet, that apology is so far the only reaction to the case.

The apology happened more or less at the middle of the week of the Assembly and thus it would be possiblefor Don Chrisóstomo to go since the distance between São Paulo and Rio is just 45min by plane and no more than 5 hours by bus if that were the case.

So, *even* being perfectly feasible their going in the middle of the week, the invitation did not come.

By: Peter O'F.

Peter O'F. — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:47:41 +0000

Not only are they “Polish,” but self-converted Brazilians, formerly with the Milan Synod years ago, though much reduced in recent years due to some conflict within their clergy, some of whom joined the Serbs, and some the Romanians IIRC, both with their parishes.

More importantly, did they make it to the EA in their own backyard? And, God grant Many Years to the Episcopal Assembly of South America and its successors!

Cristo ressuscitou! Em verdade ressuscitou!

By: Geo Michalopulos

Geo Michalopulos — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:00:12 +0000

Isa, that just goes to show how bass-ackward the Phanar does things. Clearly Venezuela and Panama should be distinct. Then again, there’s a silver lining in that it would be good if Athenagoras had nothing to do with North America. (Pity Tarasios and the other South Americans in that case.)

By: Isa Almisry

Isa Almisry — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:41:18 +0000

In reply to Geo Michalopulos. Christ is risen! Athenogoras has jursidiction in Venezuela and Columbia for the Greeks, hence how he ended up in South America as senior hierarch.

By: Geo Michalopulos

Geo Michalopulos — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:24:41 +0000

Do we have the story straight or are we back to the old Keystone Kops routine? I thought that Athenagoras was in Central America (which is part of North America), therefore he wouldn’t be a part of the South American scene.

By: Reg

Reg — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:20:48 +0000

Metropolitan Tarasios of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Buenos Aires and South America is the one who is organizing the Episcopal Council meetings for South America.
I don’t think Fr. Peter DiLeo is a spokesman for Metropolitan Tarasios.

By: Isa Almisry

Isa Almisry — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 07:39:17 +0000

Christ is risen!

Maybe the Phanar will get the message that the EA, once assembled, aren’t going to stay on the Phanar’s message.

By: Geo Michalopulos

Geo Michalopulos — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:26:27 +0000

Andrew, I know where you’re coming from, but looking at this from a political angle, one can see that the Phanar blew this one big time and they got caught. Overall, this bodes well because it puts them on notice that the there’s a new day dawning, and it isn’t one of Phanariote triumphalism.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:26:02 +0000

I would like to point out that if a few “Omogenia” Bishops have been left out somewhere, there would be a riot from the Phanar to 79th Street. Every overpaid staffer with a “high profile” office would be writing letters and crying crocodile tears to the press. You would have grandstanding bishops pushing each other out of the way crying out for blood. But when the omogenia forgets the Polish Hierarchy its a simple oversight. Move along… nothing to see here.

We live in the 21st Century. Technology has made research and communication easy. No excuse not to know.

Will the Phanar actually apologize? No they won’t and they never do. They just will look for a excuse again and again.