Esteemed former brethren in the bosom of
the ROCA:
Seven years later you decided to depose us,
the eight bishops who did not go with you in your pernicious move to unite with
the Moscow Patriarchate.
Immediately, unwittingly, the falsehood
written in your “edict” stands out, that we “did not heed the several
admonitions and suspensions from your ruling hierarchs”. I, over the course of the last seven years
never received anything like that from anyone – neither admonitions, nor
suspensions, nor letters, nor words. My
last exchange of words with any one of you, was with Metropolitan Laurus on 29
May/11 June, 2007.
When Met. Laurus saw that he was not able
to persuade me to follow your traitorous path, he asked me in writing to hand
over to him the Antimins, holy myrrh, and book of records. I traveled to Jordanville and personally
handed him all that he had requested. The conversation was brief. I fulfilled his request and he fulfilled my
desire for me and my parishioners to be left alone and we parted forever. No suspension from my “ruling archbishop”
ever followed!
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