Further Correspondence of the ROCOR with the GOC of Greece

A Letter of St. Philaret of New York to Archbishop Auxentios of Athens

 

May 24/June 6, 1979

TO HIS BEATITUDE

ARCHBISHOP AUXENTIOS

Your Beatitude,

In accordance with Your request, I inform you that Bishop Kallistos [of Corinth] was well received by us, but we declined to examine his case, by virtue of the resolution of the Council of Bishops, according to which the Russian Church Abroad does not interfere in the affairs of the Greek Church.

Your Beatitude’s
humble servant,

Metropolitan Philaret

 

 

 

 

 

Published in Η Φωνή της Ορθοδοξίας [The Voice of Orthodoxy], No. 763, July 1979, pp. 7-8.

Photo of the meeting of Metropolitan Kallistos of Corinth at Jordanville:

https://orthodoxmiscellany.blogspot.com/2026/03/photograph-of-greek-old-calendarists.html

 

Other relevant correspondence:

Letters of Bishop Hilarion of Manhattan to clergymen in Greece:

https://orthodoxmiscellany.blogspot.com/2026/04/1986-rocor-reaffirms-genuine-orthodox.html

Letter of St. Philaret of New York to Bishop Petros of Astoria:

https://orthodoxmiscellany.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-did-bishop-petros-of-astoria-refuse.html