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This is from The Best Lawyers in America. Bobby’s consigliere is:
L. Derek Byrd
The Byrd Law Firm
2151 Main Street Suite 201
Sarasota FL 34237-6023
Telephone: (941) 954 3400
You DO have a right to know…
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One of the Cabinet sent this dispatch in:
Ray Valencia was at a funeral in a Serbian parish, wearing a clerical suit.
This is outrageous, if true. Mr Velencia is a suspended clergyman, which means that he can NOT, under ANY circumstances pass himself off as a clergyman in any venue, public or private. The OCA Holy Synod stripped him of the right to identify himself or act as a clergyman when it suspended him in January 2012. It’s interesting, I have court papers in my possession after that date listing a “Rev Raymond Velencia” as the complainant. That means that he engaged in a legal imposture. He isn’t a clergyman in good standing, so, he can’t use the title “Rev” under any circumstance whatsoever. Indeed, he’s spitting in the face of the OCA Holy Synod. When will they depose this jabronie for contumaciously masquerading as a priest in good standing? He won’t sue me, despite all his threats. He can’t allow himself to be exposed before an objective court of law as the disgraced suspended clergyman that he is.
I can’t be sued for reporting that the OCA Holy Synod booted this guy out of the ranks of its active and respectable clergy, for it happened. Oh, yes… I made a copy of the relevant PDF just in case certain parties try funny stuff… it’s happened before. When will the OCA Holy Synod act? Mollard should can the New Age pabulum and start acting like the late Vladyki Kiprian… then, there’d be joy in Mudville (for Casey will have hit a grand slam bases-loaded homer)…
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Czech/Slovak Orthodox First Hierarch Suspected of Violating Monastic Vows by Having Sex with Women
Tags: adultery, Christian, Christianity, Czech Republic, Czechia, Eastern Orthodox Church, fornication, Holy Synod, legal affairs, monasticism, monks, Orthodox, Orthodox Church, Orthodox monks, Orthodoxy, political commentary, politics, Prague, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, TV Nova, ČTK
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On Thursday, Jaroslav Suvarsky, head of the Archpastoral Council of the Orthodox Church of all Czechia and Slovakia, told ČTK that the Church’s First Hierarch, Metropolitan Kryštof Pulec, has until mid-May to refute the suspicion that he violated his vows as a monk by having sex with women. Bishop Simeon Jakovljević of Brno-Olomouc in Morava will be locum tenens for Kryštof until then {interestingly, Simeon disputed Kryštof’s election as First Hierarch in 2006… could this be Round Two of that battle?: editor}. For instance, now, Kryštof can’t sign agreements or contracts on behalf of the Church.
TV Nova reported that Kryštof, Archbishop of Prague (Praha) and First Hierarch of the Local Church of all Czechia and Slovakia, has had several girlfriends with whom he has children. It said that the Holy Synod of the Local Church discussed the issue at an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday. Suvarsky said that the synod “urged First Hierarch Kryštof to refute the accusations by its next meeting”, adding that the synod will meet again in mid-May. According to Nova, the Church accused Kryštof of having sex with a priest’s wife for seven years. In addition, she isn’t the only woman with whom Kryštof committed a sin. He fathered children with others, maybe up to ten of them, the synod said, cited by Nova. Kryštof said that he has two daughters, both born before he took an oath as a monk.
Kryštof said that the accusation might have links to an in-process property settlement between the Czech state and churches, of which 1.14 billion Koruna (1.82 billion Roubles. 57 million USD. 44 million Euros. 37 million UK Pounds) is to go to the Orthodox Church. On Thursday, Kryštof told TV Nova, “Some would like the money to be spent exclusively on humanitarian projects for seniors, ill people, and children. Others, however, say that the money should be deposited in funds to draw more money for priests’ [pay]“. There are about 100,000 Orthodox believers amongst 10.5-million Czechs. The number has risen, mainly due to the arrival of immigrants from the Ukraine and other countries with an Orthodox majority.
5 April 2013
Prague Daily Monitor
http://praguemonitor.com/2013/04/05/czech-orthodox-church-primate-suspected-breaching-oath
Editor’s Note:
This jabronie is a pal of Paffhausen’s… remember, shitbirds of a feather flock together. Interesting, no?
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