LivenotoneviL said:
What are your thoughts, particularly for the Oriental Orthodox or those who are knowledgeable about the Oriental Orthodox, in regards to their liturgical praxis, their canonical status, their history, etc.
If memory serves, Metropolitan Seraphim is the nephew of a chap who stylef himself Catholicos of the West, who was seeking to “collect” lines of apostolic succession, and IIRC was also the founder of what became the Ecclesia Gnostica (gnosis.org).
By the way, I would love to see the rubrics for the divine liturgy of St. James they were using before the rupture. If memory serves, most of the faithful left and are under the pastoral care of Fr. Peter and the Coptic bishop of the UK, St. George’s Mission.
So, I consider the British Orthodox Church properly speaking to consist of St. George’s Mission, the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, the Antiochian (archdiocese), the Metropolis of Sourozh, the ROCOR churches, the Syriac, Armenian and Ethiopian churches, and the other canonical churches, since the entity which calls itself the British Orthodox Church tragically decided to commit ecclesiastical suicide.
I know of a small Syriac jursidiction in the US that is descended from the American Catholic Church of Rene Vilatte whose clergy would literally resign if one of the canonical Orthodox churches were to step in and provide for their small flock even on the terms of St. George’s Mission; the status of what Metropolitan Seraphim had is beyond their wildest hopes. It is such a tragedy that he decided to throw it away. Even if he resigned and replaced himself I doubt the Coptic Church would re-receive him, although we can pray. The BOC traces back to a church founded by Metropolitan Jules Ferrette, who, if memory serves, unlike Vilatte was not vagante.
