FROM THE MINUTES OF THE FEBRUARY 2011 OCA HOLY SYNOD MEETING

Editor’s Foreword:

Bear in mind that that this meeting was at a luxury hotel AT THE REQUEST OF FATHAUSEN… it wasn’t in a monastery. This was no “retreat”… who will stand and say otherwise?

BMD

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The Holy Synod’s Concern for the Health of His Beatitude, Jonah

HEARD:

The Holy Synod discussed matters affecting the primatial service of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah. Holy Synod members affirmed their love and obedience to the Metropolitan and reminded him that love and obedience are also reciprocal between the Metropolitan and the Holy Synod. There must be mutual obedience. Metropolitan Jonah was asked to absent himself from the meeting. Discussion followed. Metropolitan Jonah returned to the meeting.

DECIDED:

The Holy Synod took the following actions and reviewed them with His Beatitude:

1. The Holy Synod accepted Archpriest Alexander Garklavs’ resignation as Chancellor effective immediately.
2. The Holy Synod expressed concern for the Metropolitan’s health. Once again, they affirmed their love and concern for him and their earnest desire to see him succeed. After further discussion, the Holy Synod determined that a sixty-day Leave of Absence for His Beatitude would be beneficial. Metropolitan Jonah accepted to do so. The Synod asked him to request to do so, as it would be better seen that he acknowledged the need for this. Metropolitan Jonah then requested a Leave Of Absence for not less than 60 days during which time he would see a physician and devote himself to his own spiritual and physical health without concern for the burdens of the primatial office. This could include a time of retreat at a monastery. His Grace Bishop Benjamin asked if he was ready to make this decision or if he needed additional time and the Metropolitan said he did not need more time to make the decision.
3. The Holy Synod appointed Archbishop Nathaniel as Administrator of the OCA for the length of His Beatitude’s leave.
4. The Holy Synod appointed Bishop Melchisedek as interim Chancellor.
5. The Holy Synod relieved His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah from his responsibilities as Locum Tenens of the Diocese of the South and appointed Bishop Nikon Locum Tenens of the Diocese of the South with Bishop Mark continuing as administrator.
6. The Holy Synod relieved His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah from his responsibilities as Locum Tenens of the Diocese of Midwest and appointed Bishop Tikhon as Locum Tenens of the diocese of the Midwest with Archimandrite Matthias continuing as administrator.

HEARD:

Bishop Benjamin conveyed to His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, the above decisions of the Holy Synod. He noted that these decisions were made out of love for His Beatitude and out of concern for the spiritual and physical health of the Primate. The members of the Holy Synod emphasised that it was their desire for His Beatitude to sincerely take this time to address issues of his well‐being so that he could most effectively fulfil his responsibilities as Primate of the Church.

Metropolitan Jonah thanked the brothers for their concern and acknowledged that a leave of absence would be beneficial and noted that he had not had much time off since his election as Primate. Bishop Tikhon asked His Beatitude if he needed any time to reflect upon these matters. Metropolitan Jonah declined and confirmed that he would abide by the counsel of his brothers.

DECIDED:

1. The Holy Synod accepted the request of Metropolitan Jonah for a leave of absence for 60 days.
2. Bishop Michael will meet with Archpriest Alexander Garklavs on Friday to convey to him that the Holy Synod accepts his resignation. He will also meet with the other members of the staff and inform them of the above developments and appointments.
3. The Holy Synod will issue a press release, to be dated Friday, February 25, 2011.

Upcoming Events

HEARD:

A discussion was held on the upcoming Holy Synod/Metropolitan Council meeting, the Assembly of Bishops and the All American Council.

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Thursday 24 February 2011

SESSION V

Final Review

HEARD:

The Holy Synod reviewed the decisions from the minutes from the previous days. Bishop Tikhon presented a draft of the Press Release. Metropolitan Jonah inquired about several upcoming events which he had been scheduled to participate in. The Holy Synod recommended that it would be best for His Beatitude to begin his leave of absence immediately and allow the Administrator, the Interim Chancellor and the members of the Holy Synod to assume the responsibility for those events. Metropolitan Jonah agreed to this recommendation.

http://www.oca.org/PDF/NEWS/2011/2011-0301-public-minutes-santafe.pdf

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Editor’s Note:

This only deepens the current “Nacht und Nebel”… there’s only one thing certain. The OCA and ROCOR have both outlived their usefulness. It’s time for the Centre to step in, abolish both, and set up a unified Russian Orthodox exarchate in the USA (and another unified exarchate in Canada, too… Alaska should be a direct part of the Mother Church). It’s also time for His Nibs to can the Blunder. He’s been nothing but a troublemaker and he exacerbated this situation unnecessarily.

It’s not been a boring last few days, has it? See ya… same bat time… same bat channel.

BMD

A CRY OF ANGUISH… HOW LONG MUST IT GO ON!

The Lord Christ WEEPS. Why are you waiting, Vladyki Melchizadek! ACT! If you can’t remove JP… stand up and speak out!

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Read this:

Richard Wood (Archimandrite Zacchaeus) didn’t complete a four-year undergraduate degree or a Master of Divinity degree. Why he’s titled as Dr Zacchaeus in the press release is beyond me. Did you know that RSK fired Mark Stokoe as National Youth Director in 1990? The OCA and the ROCOR are BEYOND repair. I can’t believe all this business with the Uniates either. I agree concerning the bishops you mentioned. We also need teachers like St Justin Popovich and Fr Michael Pomazansky in the seminaries. ADS set things in motion in the OCA and we’re still paying the bill. That being said, we can’t give up, Vara. Press on relentlessly.

This requires no commentary…

BMD

Fathausen and Zacchaeus Wood are Keeping STRANGE COMPANY… oca.org didn’t Tell You about This

From left to right, JP (some say that it’s JP… some say its Wood… it certainly looks like JP to me… it’s one or the other (does Wood look that much like El Gordo?)), Theodosius Lazor (1933- ), and Robert Parlotz, a vagante “Anglican” bishop of the “United Anglican Church”… an organisation with all of NINE parishes in the USA. Birds of a feather DO flock together…

Some sources say that JP was there… others not… nevertheless, if it’s Wood or if it’s JP, it’s high-level OCA operatives schmoozing with nutters. This is indicative of the confusion that’s regnant today…

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Editor’s Foreword:

A “Concerned Reader” sent me the links… thank you! I’d say to His Holiness, “THIS is the sort of slime that Paffhausen is dragging you through… rip up the Tomos, disestablish the ROCOR, and created united exarchates in the USA, Canada, Australia, and Western Europe (Alaska would be part of the Mother Church proper). It’s time for action…”

BMD

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Dr Dame Evangeline Gouletas Honours V Rev Archimandrite Dr Zacchaeus at Cité Elegant Dinning

Dr Dame Evangeline Gouletas honoured the Very Reverend Archimandrite Dr Zacchaeus, Diplomatic Representative to the Orthodox Church of All the Russias from the Orthodox Church of America.

Dr Dame Evangeline Gouletas honoured the Very Reverend Archimandrite Dr Zacchaeus, Diplomatic Representative to the Orthodox Church of All the Russias from the Orthodox Church of America, by hosting a cocktail reception to celebrate his 40th birthday at her upscale restaurant, Cité Elegant Dinning at the Top of Lake Point Tower, in Chicago, on Thursday, 24 February. The VIP guest list included dignitaries such as His Beatitude, Metropolitan Theodosios (Feodosy Lazor), Primate Emeritus of the Orthodox Church in America; Archbishop and Primate, The Most Rev Dr Robert D. Parlotz, FOHS, Archbishop and Primate of the United Anglican Church; HRH. Princess Elisabeth zu Ysenburg und Büdingen, Royal Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem {Isenburg-Büdingen was mini-statelet mediatised to Isenburg in 1806; later, Isenburg was split between Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt in 1815, ceasing to exist as a state… a “princess” from a decidedly Grand Fenwickian rotten borough: editor}; Brigadier General (Rt.) Patrick Rea, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem; Khaled Elkhatib, Deputy Director, Mayor’s Office of International Relations, City of Chicago; Count Alexander Reventlow, a descendant of St Elizabeth and German Nobleman, and many-many others.

Cité Elegant Dining at The Top of Lake Point Tower is a dazzling haute cuisine establishment offering Chef Oscar Ornelas exceptional French American cuisine with stunning culinary creations. It offers unobstructed wrap-around views of Chicago’s skyline and Lake Michigan, seventy stories above ground at The Top of Lake Point Tower. It fuses the wealth of international culinary and interior design sophistication of its owner, Evangeline Gouletas, who is also a real estate legend, a visionary entrepreneur, an educator and mentor, a passionate philanthropist and a Former First Lady of New York State.

1 March 2011

PRLog

http://www.prlog.org/11342993-dr-dame-evangeline-gouletas-honors-rev-archimandrite-dr-zaccheaus-at-cit-elegant-dinning.html

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Editor’s Afterword:

Here’s a link to a page of the organisation putting on this precious little chi-chi soirée:

http://www.osmth.org/admin_exec.htm

Here’s the website of the “United Anglican Church”:

http://www.unitedanglicanchurch.org/

Do you remember Evangeline Gouletas? I do! Here’s something from Wikipedia:

In 1981, Carey married Evangeline Gouletas, a Chicago-based Greek-American real estate mogul. This marriage proved controversial and a political liability. The marriage generated controversy since Gouletas had affirmed on the marriage license that she had two ex-husbands, when she actually had three. Gouletas also said that her first husband, with whom she had a daughter, was dead, when he was still alive at the time. The marriage also caused trouble for Carey with the Catholic Church since he married a thrice-divorced woman in a Greek Orthodox Church. Carey and Gouletas-Carey divorced in 1989. Carey later described this marriage as “his greatest failure”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Carey

THIS is what Fathausen does to you… he and Wood issue flowery speeches, then, they spend your money schmoozing with crackbrained nutters, vagante bishops, and strutting “royals” from defunct Lilliputian principalities smaller than Manhattan (when they were still in existence, that is). Did Hilarion Kapral and Yustinian Ovchinnikov know this before they met with Fathausen on Sunday? Did El Gordo tell the Blunder about this gay little tête-à-tête? Perspirin’ minds wanna know…

Birds of a feather DO flock together. Vladyki Melchizadek… the time to act is NOW. Take out the humane killer and put down the OCA… otherwise, the suffering that this clown will inflict on innocents will be on your head.

DON’T DELAY, SIR…

Barbara-Marie Drezhlo

Tuesday 1 March 2011

Albany NY

Blunder Posts on Kryštof’s Visit on Sunday Night with Jonas (A Veritable Repeat of Wood’s Missive on Monday)

Original low-res image for the patriarchia.ru post

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Editor’s Foreword:

This is an almost word-for-word repetition of Wood’s post on this matter (dated 27 February, but actually posted 28 February MSK). I give it to you for completeness sake… it also shows that the Blunder is pulling out the stops to rescue his partner in crime Paffhausen. The Blunder’s press office (not the main patriarchal office) posted this at 18.02 MSK (15.02 UTC 10.02 EST 07.02 PST) today, rather late on Tuesday (Moscow time) for an event that passed on Sunday night.

By the way… one of the images posted on the OCA Representation site on 28 February led me to believe that Zacchaeus Wood could be in New York… and this post confirms it. I didn’t say anything before, as I’ve made misidentifications in the past (ugh!) and I didn’t want another (if I’m cautious, you’ll trust me, that’s the long and short of it). The fact that Mr Wood is in New York underscores the seriousness (and depth) of the kimchi that Fathausen is in. It also explains why the OCA rationalisation for JP is going down poorly in Moscow. If Wood isn’t there to press the case personally, it has to go through third parties, and my observation of life has taught me that such finagling rarely succeeds.

BMD

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First Hierarchs of the Church of Czechia and Slovakia and the OCA Visited St Nicholas Cathedral and the ROCOR Synod of Bishops in New York

On 27 February 2011, through the invitation of Archbishop Yustinian Ovchinnikov of Naro-Fominsk, Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, with the blessing of Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev of Moscow and all the Russias {this is boilerplate, ignore it: editor}, Metropolitan Kryštof Pulec of Czechia and Slovakia and Metropolitan Jonas Paffhausen of all America and Canada (sic) visited St Nicholas Cathedral in New York. Vladyki Yustinian, Archpriest Igor Vyzhanov (representative of the VRNS to the UN), and Abbot Nikodim Balyasnikov, as well as cathedral parishioners, met the First Hierarchs of our fraternal Local Churches. Archbishop Yustinian explained to Metropolitan Kryštof, who was on his first official visit to the USA, the history of the Russian cathedral parish of St Nicholas in New York, with its associations with Patriarch St Tikhon Bellavin, Holy Martyr Aleksandr Khotovitsky, and other notable Orthodox believers in America. Metropolitan Kryštof venerated the holy objects kept in the church. Accompanied by Fr Igor Vyzhanov, he inspected the cathedral’s building and familiarised himself with its parish life.

After a visiting St Nicholas Cathedral, Metropolitan Kryštof and Metropolitan Jonas accompanied Archbishop Yustinian on a call to the Cathedral of the Sign and the Synodal Residence (ROCOR). Metropolitan Hilarion Kapral of New York and Eastern America, the First Hierarch of the ROCOR, welcomed the distinguished guests. In addition, Archpriest Igor Vyzhanov, Archpriest Seraphim Gan (personal secretary to Metropolitan Hilarion), and Archimandrite Zacchaeus Wood (the head of the OCA Representation in Moscow) attended the meeting.

1 March 2011

Patriarchia.ru

Official MP Website

http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/1419722.html

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Editor’s Afterword:

This should prove to all comers that Fathausen is dumber than dirt. If there was ever a time when Zacchaeus Wood needed to be at the Centre attending to business, it’s now. When I first saw the images on Monday morning, I said to myself, “That CAN’T be Wood… they need him for personal diplomacy at the Centre. JP’s dumb… but he’s not THAT dumb”. Well, kids, I wuz wrong… JP IS that dumb.

This means that underlings are carrying out all OCA actions at the Centre. YOUCH! That’s a recipe for disaster. Wood has personal contacts that are necessary for bringing JP’s point across. Note well who was at the meeting at the ROCOR facility… Gan… he’s from one of the ROCOR First Families… Vyzhanov… who’s one of the Blunder’s coterie (what did he do to get exiled to America?)… Wood… who’s the OCA’s top diplomat in Moscow… Yustinian… who was rusticated to the USA for screwing up in Moldova (he was Bishop of Tiraspol (capital of the breakaway Republic of Transnistria)… it was something related to the rebel Society of St Matrona (c’mon, Yustinian has a degree from the Theological Faculty in Bucharest (spent four years there), why send HIM to NYC?))… JP… who’s in the midst of a kafuffle with the OCA Holy Synod (especially Mel Pleska, who hates him and all of his entourage)… Hilarion Kapral… who’s Archbishop of New York, but spends most of his time in Australia. Now, I understand why Wood dated his missive 27 February… he should have indicated that he was posting from New York, for it had passed into the next day in Moscow (after all, that website IS based in Moscow and has an “.ru” suffix). Remember… this is all from the “transparency” crowd.

There’s a fin de siècle atmosphere hovering about all of this. In any case, in all my years, I’ve NEVER seen a bishop take a holiday for sixty days, let alone during Great Lent! I’ll say this… this is so confused and murky that I’ll not hazard a guess on anything… save to say that JP is a liar and you should treat him accordingly. Keep your eyes and ears open… watch where creepozoids like Lyonyo, Iggy, Bobby, Fester, and Karlgut congregate. Don’t be fooled… Mark Stokoe is one of them… he was a Syosset insider too.

Pass the jug… it won’t be boring, that’s for sure! God DO watch over us… we’re gonna NEED it.

Barbara-Marie Drezhlo

Tuesday 1 March 2011

Albany NY