Chosen for His People by Jane Swan

Author:Jane Swan [Swan, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-942699-03-3
Publisher: Holy Trinity Publications
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Fifty-four hierarchs signed it, but because sixty-six hierarchs attended, twelve bishops (unnamed) must have refused.41 Vvedensky then delivered a tirade lasting two and one-half hours against the patriarch, of which the following excerpt was put into a resolution:

After the meeting of the Council, Patriarch Tikhon continued this counter-revolutionary activity. He became the leader and standard bearer of all opponents of the Soviet government. He drove the Church into the counter-revolutionary struggle.

The Sacred Council of the Orthodox Church of 1923 condemns the counter-revolutionary struggle and its methods, which are the methods of man-hatred. Especially does the Council of 1923 deplore the anathematization of the Soviet government and of all who recognize it. The Council declares this anathematization to have no force.

The Council of 1923 condemns all those who have followed this path and persuaded others to follow them. And this applies, first of all, to the responsible leader of our church life, Patriarch Tikhon. Whereas Patriarch Tikhon served the counter-revolution instead of sincerely serving Christ, and since he is the person who was supposed to direct properly all ecclesiastical life, but as on the contrary he led astray the broad masses of the Church, the Council regards Tikhon as an apostate from the original commands of Christ and a traitor to the Church. On the basis of the canons of the Church, it hereby declares him to be deposed from the sacred orders and monasticism and relegated to his original status of a layman.

Hereafter Patriarch Tikhon is layman Vasily Bellavin.

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Condemning the former Patriarch Tikhon as a leader of counterrevolution and not the Church, the Council holds that the very restoration of the patriarchate was a definitely political counter-revolutionary act. The ancient Church knew no patriarch and was governed conciliarly; hence the Sacred Council hereby abolishes the restored patriarchate: hereafter the Church shall be governed by the Council.42

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