"I want to be sincere with you, I respect your strictness, but my faith is different. I believe that the Holy Mysteries of the New Calendarists possess grace. And you know, it’s a very good thing that I did not sign the 1974 Encyclical. I did not, and of course I know the hypocrisy of those who did. They didn't believe in it and would never have dared to [originally] introduce it."
- Metropolitan Petros of Astoria, during a visit to the Holy Synod of the Matthewites in 1986. Quoted by Archimandrite Kyrikos Kontogiannis (later Matthewite Metropolitan of Mesogaia) in A Brief Sketch of the New Calendarist and Florinite Schisms, 1989, pages 24-25 (in Greek).
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