A Commentary on the Union Between The GTOC and The Greek Synod in Resistance (Cyprianites) - Protopresb. Victor Melehov

In considering the recent union between the synod of the GTOC under Archbishop Kallinikos and the Synod in Resistance (Cyprianites), or for that matter, the possible union of any of the Greek synods since the wholesale apostasy of the Greek Church in 1924, and the subsequent emergence of the many competing True Orthodox synods, one might consider that a miraculous event has transpired.  If, on the other hand, all that has occurred was a merger between a True Orthodox synod and a heretical synod, we have witnessed a tragedy, or another apostasy.  As the saying goes; adding clean water to polluted water does not cleanse the polluted water.  It merely pollutes the clean water.

Комментарии к унии Синода ИПЦ Греции и Синода Противостоящих (Киприанитов) - Протопр. Виктор Мелехов

Рассматривая недавнее воссоединение Синодов Греческой ИПЦ – архиепископа Каллиника и Синода противостоящих (киприанитов), или в связи с этим возможное соединение других конкурирующих греческих Истинно-православных синодов, возникших после всеобщей апостасии Греческой Церкви в 1924 году, можно подумать, что случилось чудо. Однако, с другой стороны, если все, что произошло – это слияние Истинно-Православного синода с еретическим, то мы становимся свидетелями трагедии или другой апостасии. Как говорится, добавление чистой воды к грязной, не очистит грязную воду, а просто загрязнит чистую.

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Father Herman (Podmoshensky) dies

(Pravoslavie.Ru) Minneapolis, June 30, 2014

This morning in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Fr. Herman (Podmoshensky), co-founder with Fr. Seraphim (Rose) and first abbot of the St. Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, California, reposed. Fr. Herman had suffered for at least a decade from Parkinson’s disease and diabetes, and had noticeably weakened within the past several years. He died at age eighty.

One of the most controversial figures in American Orthodoxy today, Fr. Herman was loved by many, but disregarded by others for his violation of Church canons and remaining in disobedience to his ecclesiastical superiors in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). He was defrocked by ROCOR in 1988. Fr. Herman’s missionary work continued, in fact bringing many people into the Orthodox faith. 

Fr. Herman, born Gleb Dimitrievich Podmoshensky in Riga, Latvia, lost his father to the Communist camps. When the German army occupied Latvia during World War II, he fled with his mother and sister to Germany and the misery of being displaced persons. At age fourteen, he and his family went to the United States to be united with his grandmother, an accomplished ballet dancer, who had earlier immigrated to New York City. Gleb returned to the Orthodox faith of his ancestors as a young adult in America, and graduated from seminary at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York.