Here’s the post’s image, in all of its… ahem… glory…
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On 20 July 2013, the First Hierarch of the OCA, Metropolitan Tikhon Mollard, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of all America and Canada (sic), arrived in Moscow to participate in the celebrations of the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus. Metropolitan Pavel Ponomaryov of Ryazan and Mikhailov, Archbishop Arseny Epifanov of Istra, First Patriarchal Vicar in the City of Moscow, Bishop Kliment Rodaikin of Krasnoslobodsk and Temnikov, Archimandrite Alexander Pihach, representative of the OCA to the MP, Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, Deputy Chairman of the MP DECR, Archpriest Igor Yakymchuk, DECR secretary for inter-Orthodox relations, Archpriest Georgi Roshchin, representative of the World Russian People’s Council (VRNS) at the UN (assigned to St Nicholas Cathedral in New York NY), met Metropolitan Tikhon at Domodedovo Airport. Accompanying Metropolitan Tikhon were Bishop Alexander Golitzin of Toledo, Head of the OCA Office of External Relations and Interchurch Affairs, Archpriest John Jillions, OCA Chancellor, and Deacon Jesse Isaac, OCA Archdiocese of Canada.
21 July 2013
Patriarchia.ru
Official MP Website
http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/3113136.html
Editor’s Note:
Do notice the discrepancy between the OCA list and the MP list of the members of the delegation. The OCA (in its last post, on Wednesday 17 July, see here) posted this:
Accompanying Metropolitan Tikhon will be His Grace, Bishop Alexander of Toledo and the Bulgarian Diocese; Archpriest John Jillions, OCA Chancellor; Archpriest Leonid Kishkovsky, Director of External Relations and Inter-Church Relations; Archimandrite Alexander [Pihach], OCA Representative to the Moscow Patriarchate and Dean of Saint Catherine Representation Church, Moscow; Deacon Jesse Isaac, Archdiocese of Canada; and Deacon Cyril Dotsenko, Saint Catherine Church, Moscow.
Guess what, kids! Lyonyo’s MIA… the MP post doesn’t mention him at all. Is it an error (hardly possible) or is Lyonyo not there? After all, he’s a bumsucker of the US government (he IS a member of the CFR, after all)… and l’affaire Snowden is playing out, isn’t it? However, if Lyonyo is missing, he’ll claim that’s he ill… just you wait. If there was a change, Lil’ Mizz Ginny was too lazy to post it… or was she told by the Syosset rats to sit on it?
Also mark it down that Mollard got a Grade Z reception. Mind you, it was better than what JP ever got (mostly, he was met by the Blunder and no one else of importance). There was no major white hat for the meet n’ greet. Metropolitan Pavel had been MP ruling hierarch in New York from 1992 to 1999, so, it may be likely that he knows Mollard personally. Archbishop Arseny is Yuvenaly Poyarkov’s dogsbody… everything that he sees and hears will go to Yuvenaly. Bishop Kliment is from Mordovia, which means that he’s part of Varsonofy Sudakov’s mafia.
Mollard got no military honour guard (the Archbishop of Cyprus DID merit such)… the Blunder didn’t meet him personally… no one from HH’s immediate circle and entourage was at the airport… and there was no “photo-album” on the MP website. In short, Mollard was treated like a subordinate foreign bishop of the MP… not as a First Hierarch of a truly-autocephalous Local Church. However, do notice that he got better treatment than JP ever did.
I wrote one of the Cabinet:
Hmm… did you notice Mollard’s entourage for the Centre? Golitzin is the only bishop… no Dahulich… no Peterson… no Hatfield. NO TOSI… mirabile dictu! One of my Centre contacts told me, “Mollard is being propped up for now… there’s no one else. The Phanariotes aren’t getting the OCA”. Note well that Mollard’s getting a confab with VVP… Fatso never got that. He’s also getting photo ops with Yanukovich and Lukashenko. Fancy that… {is that why Lyonyo’s not going on this trip? Did his US government “minders” pull his leash taut?: editor}
They replied:
Well, at least, Golitzin is fluent in Russian. Someone told me so is Jillions. So, I’d imagine Mollard will always have someone around who can speak Russian. I’ve no idea what languages he’s fluent in. Be grateful Fatso never got to speak with Putin, it probably would have started World War Three. 🙂
Yet… where’s Lyonyo? That’s truly interesting. After all, the oca.org post said that he was going. Lil’ Mizz Ginny is incompetent and a flack, but she usually doesn’t lie. Wo ist Lyonyo? I’m not the only one asking that question…
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