Why did Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Florina not consecrate successors?

The reasons why St. Chrysostomos of Florina did not proceed with new consecrations before his repose were as follows: a) The purpose for which the consecrations of 1935 were conducted (to pressure the official Church to reintroduce the old calendar) was not achieved; b) the individuals consecrated in 1935 completely disappointed him (two - Matthew of Bresthena and Germanos of the Cyclades - caused a schism, while the other two - Christopher of Megara and Polycarp of Diavleia - returned to the official Church); c) he could not find suitable individuals with the correct ecclesiological views (i.e., not fanatical) to become bishops (he considered only two laymen suitable - the theologians Dionysios Batistatos and Stavros Karamitsos - but they were married and could not be ordained as bishops); and d) there was no second bishop to assist in the consecrations.

- Nikolaos Mannis, “Archbishop Leonty (+1971) and the Greek Old Calendarists (Part 3),” footnote 8.

 

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