"Enter, through the Life-Giving Cross"

            We herewith announce with great sadness that the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese in the U.S. and their Patriarchate - the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in North and South America and our mother Church, the Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate knowingly and intentionally prayed with the deposed contrary to Canon 11 (Xi) of the 85 Apostolic Canons.   

            The ethnic Orthodox Churches and clergy appear to use the Canons selectively to favor themselves. In this case:

An informal complaint was sent and ignored so a letter was sent to the Ecumenical Patriarch May 15, 2009 with a formal complaint of violations of the Canons by the Antiochian clergy including Metropolitan Philip. Also we included a brief but detailed complaint of the acts in 1929 by the Greek Archbishop, Alexander, which was the cause of the Schism in American Orthodoxy and a complaint with a couple points about the Russian Church violating the canons was included also. The Antiochian clergy have violated the canons publicly. The complaint is detailed on another page. [click on the cross] Their actions have clearly violated the canons and none have repented. The Canons direct that people guilty of many of these acts that violate the canons shall be deposed. Being pubic acts it was clear to all orthodox that the violations occured and were ignored.  

            After being sent this complaint we have had no response as yet and no public action appears to have been taken. This complaint has been sent by documented U.S. Mail and by E-mail. They may attempt to ignore the complaint because they may claim this Church is not in communion [with them]". Their logic is defective here and our documentation was included with the complaint. The Church that issued the complaint is a canonically established Orthodox Church that was chartered in 1927 by the Russian Synod in North America (Metropolia) and has valid Holy Orders from both this Church (our Russian lines) and the Church of the East (Malabar). The complaint was based on the simple directive of the Sacred and Divine canons that are claimed by these ethnic clergy as the laws of their (Orthodox) Church. The individuals attack a canonically established Church, claim we do not exist, defamed the first Archbishop as well as another bishop who reposed long ago, the Metropolitan and Synod of the Church today, knowingly use Church property (Service Marks) without permission, and continued to do so after being advised the said property is the legally owned property of the Church (i.e. copyight and service marks - intellectual property) they are attacking. The Church and clergy are being held up to ridicule by these Schismatics on orthodoxwiki's website that referred to this Church as an independent Church claiming the corporate name and refer's to the our past clergy in an abusive manner and charging, by at least one priest, the first Archbishop, Aftimios Ofiesh of blessed memory, with canonical crimes that he was never formally charged with. The Corporate President, and former Metropolitan, of The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America handled the ecclesiastical aspects of the complaint. This is in fact a valid historical complaint.       

            It is hereby decreed that by their actions contrary to the Sacred and Divine Canons (Pedalion) the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese and its Patriarchate, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch,   knowingly and intentionally placed themselves outside and above the Sacred Canons and have made themselves schismatic and heretical groups as interpreted in the said Canons.