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It is well known that the Gospel of John completes and clarifies several gaps in the three synoptic Gospels. Metr. Anthony offers an explanation in his paper Christ the Savior and the Judean Revolution published in 1922 (Митрополит Антоний Храповицкий, Христос Спаситель и еврейская революция...

You accuse Metropolitan Vitaly of blasphemy. What does it consist in? He lays out the facts: three times the head of the church pointed out to Metropolitan Sergius that he could not do what he did, and he did it anyway and did not even reply to any of the three letters. Though at least one of...

Your reproaches to the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church are not new. In 1932 they were voiced by Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) himself. He was answered by Metr. Anthony (Khrapovitsky) in a letter of May 6, 1933; I produce below an excerpt from this letter: "You condemn the...

The obligation is not to keep the lists, but to follow the rules: cheirotonia + prayer. As explained before, the cheirotonia points to the one whom the God's work will pour the grace on. You are saying that St Hyppolitus invented an utterly false ecclesiology... Look into St Basil's letter...

In my post I cited the opinion of Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) on the differences between the ROCOR and the ROC-MP as expressed in the early 1990s. In 1998, Metropolitan Vitaly gave a more substantial answer to this question in an interview to Canadian radio. Here is a transcript of the relevant...

I think it's something stronger than just being suspicious. I believe, Metr. Vitaly's attitude was based not on suspicions, but mostly on the knowledge of some factual information.

Yes, and the distance was even greater than one might suggest basing on the opinion of Mitr. Anthony (Bloom). I am going to reproduce Mitr. Vitaly's answer to the same question in the next comment.

I agree; Rakovsky also pointed to the apostolic succession lineage in his post: Bizzlebin objects that there are gaps in the lineage: The point is, today we have some periods, in the history in general and in the history of the church in particular, that are covered very scarcely. The few...

Obviously, what a bishop transfers to a successor in apostolic succession is not his own position or his see, but the privilege of receiving the grace. The metaphor of lighting lamps from one another used by Gregory Palamas (cited by Gloria Tibi Trinitas) is very helpful to understand it.

Thank you for this reference, it is the explicit idea of apostolic succession. Bizzlebin objects: But it is obvious from the citation of St Hyppolitus of Rome I gave above in this thread that it is not the ordaining bishop who transmits the Holy Spirit to the newly ordained one; the...

While reading conversations of Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh (Митрополит Антоний Сурожский (Блум), Дом божий, Москва, Гранат, 2018), I discovered interesting details about his acquaintance with Metropolitan Vitaly (Ustinov), the future First Hierarch of the ROCOR. The acquaintance...

One more remark needs to be made. There is a difference which is difficult to capture without knowing some historical facts. In the upper icon, to the right of the royal family, we see four special figures: a woman in a red scarf supporting the Grand Duchess by the elbow, and three men, one of...

Nice observations. I absolutely agree with you. What can I say in addition to your observations—just develop a little bit what you say. Indeed, the heavenly part of the upper icon is much more significant than on the bottom one. In addition to the prominent central image of Jesus Christ, we see...

Perhaps I scared the community and gave the impression that I was suggesting a professional discussion. Not at all. I myself have no special knowledge on the painting of icons. It's about impressions and observations, differences that are visible to the naked eye. And thinking about what might...

Rules have no exceptions only in formal logic, they do have exceptions in life, sciences and faith. Okay, I started scanning your previous messages and found one of those examples: As concerns your first assertion, Mark of Ephesus recognized the heresy of the Patriarch of Constantinople, who...