ANTIOCHIAN ARCHDIOCESE ATTEMPTS DAMAGE CONTROL BY SILENCING THE CLERGY

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At 1:14 p.m. on Thursday, August 25, Metropolitan Joseph’s administrative assistant, Mariline Abou Hamad, sent the following email on behalf of Father Thomas Zain, Vicar General of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese, to the clergy of the Archdiocese in response to Orthodoxy in Dialogue’s reporting over the preceding three days. For context see the Metropolitan Joseph: The Scandal section in our Archives 2020-22 linked at the top of this page.

Beloved Brothers in Christ:

As you may now be aware, there has been an accusation (of a violation of the Church canons) against His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph. The Antiochian Archdiocese takes all accusations against a clergyman very seriously and investigates them for the protection of all parties concerned. His Eminence denies the accusation against him and asks that you keep him in your prayers during this difficult time.

Please refrain from commenting on this subject or sharing anything you see about it in traditional and social media. Encourage others to do the same and direct them to this statement that appears at https://www.antiochian.org/regulararticle/1317. If you are contacted by a member of the news media for comment, please refer that person to Subdeacon Peter Samore, the director of our Department of Communications, at communications@antiochian.org. Read More

WHO IN THE WORLD IS “BISHOP G. JOSEPH”? UNANSWERED QUESTIONS FOR METROPOLITAN JOSEPH

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Metropolitan Joseph (Al-Zehlaoui) Bishop G. Joseph

Your Eminence, Metropolitan JOSEPH:

The following inconvenient questions come from a multitude of Orthodoxy in Dialogue’s readers around the planet who feel that the time for silence and secrecy is over. (We do mean “around the planet”: the number of readers from Syria, Lebanon, the UAE, Qatar, and Jordan has shot through the roof these past four days.) Read More

MESSAGE FROM THE ANTIOCHIAN ARCHDIOCESE RE: METROPOLITAN JOSEPH’S AFFAIR

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This statement appeared earlier today on the website of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese in response to Orthodoxy in Dialogue’s reporting. For context see the Metropolitan Joseph: The Scandal section in the Archives 2020-22 linked above.
Orthodoxy in Dialogue asks that you keep His Eminence’s victim(s) in your prayers during this difficult time.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2022
A Message from the Antiochian Archdiocese
Department of Communications

As you may now be aware, there has been an accusation (of a violation of the Church canons) against His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph. The Antiochian Archdiocese takes all accusations against a clergyman very seriously and investigates them for the protection of all parties concerned. An investigation by an independent legal team not associated with the Antiochian Archdiocese is underway. His Eminence denies the accusation against him and asks that you keep him in your prayers during this difficult time.

communications@antiochian.org

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ROCOR ARCHBISHOP’S THIRST FOR UKRAINIAN BLOOD MAKES NATIONAL HEADLINES

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Orthodoxy in Dialogue has twice reported on Archbishop Gabriel (Chemodakov)’s thirst for Ukrainian blood: in ROCOR Archbishop of Canada Justifies Wholesale Slaughter of Ukraine and ROCOR’s Lunatic Archbishop of Montreal Doubles Down in Support of Ukrainian Massacre, Putin, Gundiaev. The article below appeared in today’s online edition of one of Canada’s major newspapers, the National Post.
When is ROCOR’s Synod of Bishops going to censure this embarrassment to their Church and to Orthodoxy as a whole?

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Archbishop Gabriel (Chemodakov) of Montreal and Canada
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Leader of Russian Orthodox Church in Canada defends war on Ukraine

by Tom Blackwell
Archbishop Gabriel of Montreal and Canada referred to Ukrainian forces as ‘neo-Nazi’ and inspired by ‘demonic’ forces
As Moscow’s war on Ukraine reaches the six-month mark, a top leader of the Russian Orthodox Church in Canada has echoed the Kremlin’s talking points on the conflict, insisting in a recent interview the unprovoked invasion was justified and decrying as “ridiculous” Canada’s sanctions on the church’s war-boosting patriarch.

Archbishop Gabriel of Montreal and Canada referred to Ukrainian forces as “neo-Nazi” and inspired by “demonic” forces, and said his parishes would continue to commemorate in services Patriarch Kirill, the church’s head.

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