“The ‘three hierarchs’
[Archbishop Auxentios with Metropolitans Gerontios of Piraeus and Kallinikos of
Phthiotis] blatantly and scandalously nourished for years the ground for the
creation of suitable conditions for these consecrations... of people who do not
have a good external or internal image... You removed Synodal hierarchs for no
other reason than that they sought moral and legal order in the Church
administration and the cleansing of the clergy... You displayed unbelievable
vengefulness against those hierarchs who rebuked your iniquities… You
consecrated without any examination the uneducated, the elderly and paralyzed,
and others who were weighed down by accusation concerning moral and other
crimes of which they had been officially charged in the Holy Synod... We judge
your act to be worse than the uncanonical act of Bishops Anthony and
Kallistos...”
- Metropolitan Chrysostomos (Kiousis) of Thessalonika (later Archbishop of
Athens) and Metropolitan Akakios (Pappas) of Diavleia, on the 1979
consecrations administered by Archbishop Auxentios. Cited in Thirty Years of
Trial: The True Orthodox Christians of Greece, 1970-2000, by Vladimir Moss
(2010), p. 16.
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