7.3.08
News From Around the OCA
• Anchorage, Alaska
Documents from the First National Bank in Anchorage, revealed to OCANews.org, confirm Bishop Benjamin's assertion that the former Bishop of Sitka, Nikolai, left the diocese with more than $900,000 in outstanding mortgage debt. (Read more here)
7.04.08 Update: Letter from Bishop Benjamin (here)
Where are the Men?
Written Statement of Joshua Godbold to the Dallas Town Hall
(Read it here)
Answers to Questions From the PCC
Written Statement of Mark Phinney to the DC Town Hall
(Revised 7.4.08)
(Read it here)
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6.30.08
FOUR VIEWS OF THE
DC TOWN HALL MEETING
A three hour OCA Town Hall meeting, held at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Washington DC, on Saturday June 28th, revealed that the FBI investigation into the OCA continues, the report of the Special Investigative Committee will be given to a joint meeting of the Synod and Metropolitan Council on August 27th, and that Metropolitan Herman feels at ease with his actions in the scandal. These revelations apart, the Town Hall, which gathered some 60 participants (clergy and lay) from several local parishes, together with Metropolitan Herman, OCA Chancellor Fr. Alexander Garklavs, and Ms. Lisa Morris, a member of the Pre-Conciliar Commission (PCC) from St. Nicholas Cathedral, received decidedly mixed reviews from participants.
One, a layman, described the meeting in an email to OCANews.org this way: (Read more here)
New Reflection
A Providential Typo From God
by David Barrett, Southbury CT
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6.27.08
+NIKOLAI, IN MEMO TO SYNOD,
ATTEMPTS TO SMEAR CRITICS &
DENIES LEAVING $900,000 DEBT
In a scathing memo written from "exile" in Australia, addressed to the Synod of the OCA, and copied to the Metropolitan Council as well as "the clergy and faithful of the Diocese of Alaska", the former Bishop of Sitka, Nikolai, attempts to smear his critics with hints of former scandals while denying he left the diocese in massive debt. E-mailed yesterday by his suspended, former Chancellor, Archimandrite Isidore (Brittain) (due to the Bishop's "sporadic internet access" in the rural Serbian monastery outside Melbourne where he has taken refuge) the six page memo offers a much fuller insight into the finances of the Alaskan diocese than has ever been revealed before. And it raises a host of questions. (Read more here)
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6.26.08
DOS Perspective on the Dallas Town Hall
A Correction, Two Clarifications and An Update to Yesterday's Article (Read both here)
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6.25.08
News From Around the OCA
Dallas TX
The second Pre-Conciliar “Town Hall” meeting was held Tuesday afternoon, June 24th, in Dallas TX, within the context of the Diocese of the South’s annual Diocesan Assembly. According to participants some 80 people attended, of whom more than 60 were clergy. The meeting, which lasted 2 hours, was opened by Archbishop Dmitri who repeated his long-held conviction that the dioceses are the “Church”, not the Central Church Administration. More importantly, the Archbishop stated that the OCA is unique among autocephalous churches in having parish representation at an All-American Council-type assembly. He argued that the representation should be diocesan, not parochial, and that the Statute is “wrong” on this point and should be “rewritten”. (Read more here)
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6.23.08
Lawyer Questions Role
of Metropolitan, Goals of Committee
An exchange of emails between the Metropolitan’s Administrative Assistant, Gregory Sulich and the lawyer for Archimandrite Zacchaeus (Wood), Vladimir Berezansky Jr., obtained by OCANews.org, has triggered questions concerning the overall purpose of the Special Investigative Committee and the role of Metropolitan Herman in that investigation. Berezansky’s email also reveals new information concerning Archbishop Job’s role with the now infamous Moscow tape.
(Read more here)
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6.21.08
UNION PROPOSAL
PUBLISHED BY PATRIARCHAL ROMANIANS
The Patriarchal Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America (ROAA) has published the proposal for an autonomous Romanian Orthodox Metropolitanate in North and South America that would unite and replace the current ROAA and the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate in America (ROEA). The text of the April 14, 2008 agreement, signed by representatives from both Churches, appeared on the ROAA website yesterday. It has yet to appear on the ROEA website.
(Read more here)
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Latest Reflections:
6.30.08 Mr. David Barrett, CT
6.20.08 Guido De Villa Rosa
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