Sunday, November 16, 2025

Walling-off Before Synodal Judgment

An often-cited list in Greek works from the classic work Εκκλησιαστική ιστορία, Απ' αρχής μέχρι σήμερον (Ecclesiastical History, From the Beginning to the Present) by Archimandrite Vassiliou Stefanidis, 7th edition, Papadimitriou, Athens, 1959.

 

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1. St. Athanasius the Great, St. Anthony the Great and the monastics of the Egyptian desert, from the Arians and Semi-Arians.

2. St. Eustathius of Antioch and Orthodox faithful of Antioch, from the Arians and Semi-Arians. 

3. The Orthodox faithful, including St. Gregory the Theologian, from St. Gregory of Nazianzus (the Theologian’s father), when he signed a Semi-Arian confession at the Synod of Sirmium in A.D. 358. 

4. St. Basil the Great, from the Semi-Arian Archbishop Dianius of Caesarea. 

5. St. Gregory the Theologian, from the Semi-Arian Archbishop Demophilus of Constantinople. 

6. Archbishop Akakios of Constantinople, from the Monophysite Patriarchs Timothy II Aelurus of Alexandria and Peter II Knapheus (“the Fuller”) of Antioch. (5th c.)

7. Orthodox faithful of Constantinople, from Archbishop Nestorius of Constantinople.

8. Orthodox faithful of Constantinople, from the Monophysite Patriarch Timothy I of Constantinople.

9. St. Maximus the Confessor and his two disciples, from the Monothelites, including those on the patriarchal thrones.

10. St. John of Damascus, from the Iconoclasts.

11. St. Theodore the Studite, from the Moechians and the Iconoclasts.

12. Patriarch Sergius II of Constantinople, from Pope Sergius IV of Rome after the public profession of the filioque.

13. Orthodox bishops, clergy, monks and faithful, from the Latinophile Patriarch John XI Bekkos of Constantinople.

14. St. Gregory Palamas, as a hieromonk, from the Latinophile Patriarch John XIV Kalekas of Constantinople.

15. St. Mark of Ephesus, Orthodox clergy, monks and laity, from Patriarch Metrophanes II of Constantinople and other Latinophiles.

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