Saint Ieronymos of Aegina on the New Calendarists

Nikolaos Mannis | February 25, 2025

 

Recently, a "revolution" of the extreme wing has been observed within the realm of the G.O.C., which demands the condemnation of "Cyprianism," as they call the patristic view regarding heretics who have not been synodally judged as ailing members of the Church.

Here we publish two important testimonies that mention the agreement of Saint Ieronymos of Aegina with this patristic view.

Testimony of the late physician Alexandros Kalomoiros, published in the official magazine of the G.O.C., The Voice of Orthodoxy, no. 592-593/June 15, 1970, p. 11:

In the summer of 1966, I had the opportunity to visit for confession the much-beloved ascetic and spiritual father of Aegina, Hieromonk Ieronymos Apostolides. Among other things, I wished to ask the spiritual father, renowned for his discernment and zealous adherence to patristic traditions, how he viewed the New Calendarist Church. "The New Calendarist Church," he told me, "has separated [from the patristic path]; it is not dead."

Testimony of the late Gerontissa Eupraxia Galanopoulou, published in the book of the blessed Sotiria Nousi, Elder Ieronymos of Aegina, pub. Heptalophos, 5th edition, 1996, p. 371:

The strict observance of the evangelical commandments and the ecclesiastical canons was his tireless effort. Regarding the Orthodox Old Calendar, which he had followed and remained faithful to since 1940, he would often, especially after a dreadful vision he had seen, urge the faithful to follow it, but in a fatherly manner, without insistence or fanaticism. He used to say: "The Church of Greece, through the change of the calendar, 'became ill,' and this change became the beginning and cause of many evils. Many disgraceful things will enter our Church through this 'door,' that is, through the change of the calendar, which it opened."

 

Greek source: https://krufo-sxoleio.blogspot.com/2025/02/blog-post_25.html