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| Volume 7 Number 36 - Tuesday, September 6th, 2005 |
A Publication of the ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LAITY |
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The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Mt Athos monastic community have opted for stealth rather than force in their efforts to evict some 100 ultra-Orthodox monks from the Esphigmenou Monastery. The abbots of the other 19 Mt Athos monasteries met yesterday at Karyes, the community’s administrative center, to decide on further action against the Esphigmenou monks whom they asked to leave the monastery in December 2002. The most likely course of action, it appeared last night, is to establish another monastic community, decare it the legal proprietors of the monastery and settle it temporarily elsewhere.
Last March, Greece’s Council of State, the
highest administrative court, rejected an appeal
by Esphigmenou’s abbot, Methodios, to nullify
the eviction order by the Patriarchate and the
monastic community. The court said it had no
jurisdiction over the matter, adding that the
Patriarchate has absolute authority over the
community. The Esphigmenou monks broke with the
mainstream Orthodox Church in 1964, when
Patriarch Athenagoras met with Pope John VI. The
ultra-Orthodox regard the pope as evil
incarnate. |
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