Synod News

• Orthodox Mission to Haiti (English pdf, 352 KB)

• The Inauguration of an Informal Dialogue (29 February [Old Style] 2008) (English pdf, 60 KB; Greek pdf, 66 KB)

• Holy Theophany 2008 (6/19 January 2008) (English pdf, 376 KB; Greek pdf, 391 KB)

- Festal Message for Holy Theophany 2008 (English pdf, 89 KB; Greek pdf, 91 KB)

• Visit by Italian Clergy of the Synod of Resistance to Odessa, Ukraine (December 2007) (English pdf, 124 KB; Greek pdf, 77 KB)

• Medical Evaluation of the Health of Metropolitan Cyprian (English pdf, 640 KB; Greek pdf, 251 KB)

• Standing Holy Synod in Resistance: Regular Meeting VI (November 28, 2007 [Old Style]) (English pdf, 124 KB; Greek pdf, 76 KB)

• Participation by the Orthodox Church of Greece, Holy Synod in Resistance, in Consecrations of Russian Hierarchs (24-25 November/7-8 December 2007) (English pdf, 289 KB; Greek pdf, 308 KB)

• Greek and Russian Anti-Ecumenists Embrace in Concelebration (An historic visit - November 2007) (English pdf, 522 KB; Greek pdf, 544 KB)

• Standing Holy Synod in Resistance: Extraordinary Meeting V (November 16, 2007 [Old Style]) (English pdf, 280 KB; Greek pdf, 212 KB ; Russian pdf, 180 KB)

• Standing Holy Synod in Resistance: Regular Sessions III (November 8, 2007 [Old Style]) and IV (November 14, 2007 [Old Style]) (English pdf, 112 KB; Greek pdf, 59 KB)

• New Bishops Consecrated in Romania (4-6/17-19 November 2007) (English pdf, 640 KB)

• Synodal Celebration of the Synaxis of the Three Holy New Hierarchs (Sunday 5/18 November 2007) (English pdf, 117 KB; Greek pdf, 258 KB)

• Standing Holy Synod in Resistance: Regular Sessions I (October 10, 2007 [Old Style]) and II (October 24, 2007 [Old Style]) (English pdf, 204 KB; Greek pdf, 124 KB; Russian pdf, 157 KB)

• The Consecration of His Grace, Bishop Klemes of Gardikion (7/20 October 2007) (English pdf, 394 KB; Greek pdf, 372 KB)

• The Consecration of His Grace, Bishop Cyprian of Oreoi (6/19 October 2007) (English pdf, 421 KB; Greek pdf, 387 KB)

• The Thirty-Fourth Regular Annual Meeting of the The Holy Synod in Resistance (4/17 October 2007) (English pdf, 477 KB; Greek pdf, 174 KB; Russian pdf, 166 KB)

• The Resplendent Patronal Feast of the Monastery of Sts. Cyprian and Justina (2/15 October 2007) (English pdf, 477 KB; Greek pdf, 407 KB)

• An Inter-Orthodox Celebration of the Transfiguration in Romania (6/19 August 2007) (English pdf, 389 KB; Greek pdf, 255 KB)

• To His Eminence Bishop Agafangel of Odessa and Tavris and the clergy and people of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad assembled in Astoria New York (26 June/9 July, 2007) (English pdf, 41 KB; Greek pdf, 57 KB; Russian pdf, 42 KB)

• Appeal of the First Hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Greece, Holy Synod in Resistance, the Old Calendar Orthodox Church of Romania, and the Old Calendar Orthodox Church of Bulgaria to the Most Reverend Hierarchs Agafangel and Tikhon and all clerics and faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad who have joined either of them (26 June/9 July, 2007) (English pdf, 42 KB; Greek pdf, 54 KB; Russian pdf, 63 KB)

• The Holy Synod in Resistance and Her Attitude Towards the Union of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad with the Moscow Patriarchate (English pdf, 544 KB; Greek pdf, 258 KB; Russian pdf, 808 KB)

• Documentation Pertaining to the Establishment of Communion Between the Holy Synod in Resistance and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (1994) (English pdf, 60 KB)

• “Fifteenth Convocation for Orthodox Awareness” (Sunday of Orthodoxy, 14/27 February 2007) (English pdf, 650 KB; Greek pdf, 276 KB)

- Note: You can listen to the entire program of the Convocation in the section Publications>Homilies and Music>On Ecumenism, and view it in the section Video Presentations On Ecumenism.

• The Tribulations of our Mission in the Congo and Encroachments Thereon (21 November/4 December 2006) (English pdf, 165 KB; Greek pdf, 52 KB)

•  The Regular Annual Meeting (thirty-third) of the Holy Synod in Resistance (4/17 October 2006):

- From the Resolutions of the Regular Annual Meeting (thirty-third) of the Holy Synod in Resistance (English pdf, 58 KB; Greek pdf, 68 KB)

- The Unity and Common Perspective of the Old Calendarist Orthodox Anti-Ecumenists of Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria (English pdf, 33 KB; Greek pdf, 40 KB; Russian pdf, 125 KB)

see also the original signed document (pdf, 349 KB)

- The Orthodox Resistance Against the Ecclesiastical Heresy of Syncretistic Ecumenism (English pdf, 130 KB; Greek pdf, 130 KB)

Basic Ecclesiastical and Canonical Positions

- The original of the Letter, protocol No. 432 (2 August 2006 [Old Style]) to His Grace, Bishop Symeon (pdf, 235 KB)

• The Patronal Feast of the Holy Monastery of Sts. Cyprian and Justina (2/15 October 2005) (English pdf, 1.52 MB; Greek pdf, 277 KB)

• Joyous Festal Fellowship With Our Romanian and Bulgarian Brothers and Sisters (English pdf, 118 KB; Greek pdf, 116 KB)

• † Bishop Pahomie of Vrancea (1936-11/24.05.2006) (English pdf, 896 KB; Greek pdf, 2168 KB)

Detailed program and all of the texts (presenter and the speakers) of the Fourteenth Convocation (Greek pdf, 689 KB)

• Visit to Romania (April 2006) (English pdf, 84 KB; Greek pdf, 69 KB)

• Benefit Dinner for Orthodox Missionary Work (pdf, 825 KB; Greek pdf, 211 KB)

• Message for Holy Theophany 2006 (pdf, 96 KB; Greek pdf, 99 KB)

• Holy Theophany 2006 (06/19 January 2006) (pdf, 233 KB; Greek pdf, 208 KB)

• Epistle of the Holy Synod in Resistance to the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (22 November/5 December 2005) (English pdf , 34 KB; Greek pdf; Russian pdf)

• The Consecration of His Eminence, Bishop George of Alania (Sunday 7/20 November 2005) (English pdf, 273 KB; Greek pdf, 253 B)

• The Regular Annual Meeting of the Holy Synod in Resistance (4/17 October 2005) (Greek pdf, 203 KB)

• The Annual Nameday Tribute of the Monastery of Sts. Cyprian and Justina: “Thanksgiving 2005” (Sunday 3/16 October 2005) (English pdf, 280 KB; Greek pdf, 273 B)

-For a detailed program and the full texts of the Nameday Tribute, see Annals>Greece; likewise, the entire Nameday Tribute, as a sound archive, may be found in the section Publications>Homilies and Music>Spiritual Edification.

• Visit to Bulgaria (October 2005) (Greek pdf, 125 KB)

• The Feast of the Holy Transfiguration in Romania (August 2005) (pdf, 151 KB; Greek pdf, 133 KB)

• Annual Memorial Service in Bulgaria (August 2005) (Greek pdf, 96 KB)

• Visit to Romania (August 2005) (Greek pdf, 88 KB)

• “Thirteenth Convocation for Orthodox Awareness” (Sunday of Orthodoxy, 7/20 March 2005) (pdf, 334 KB; Greek pdf, 304 KB)

-For a detailed program and the full texts of the Nameday Tribute, see Annals>Greece.

• Anniversary of the Consecration of His Eminence, Metropolitan Cyprian (pdf, 115 KB; Greek pdf, 124 KB)

• Benefit Dinner for Orthodox Missionary Work (pdf, 380 KB; Greek pdf, 861 KB)

• Consecration of New Bishops in Our Sister Old Calendar Church of Romania (pdf, 397 KB; Greek pdf, 768 KB)

• Statement on the Recent Rapprochement Between the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate (English pdf, 62 KB; Greek pdf, 69 KB; Russian pdf, 48 KB)

• † Abbess Seraphima (1913-2004): The Repose of the Spiritual Mother of the True Orthodox Christians of Bulgaria (English pdf, 58 KB; Greek pdf, 659 KB)