For context see the Metropolitan Joseph: The Scandal section in our Archives 2020-22 linked at the top of this page.

The bottom of the homepage of the Antiochian Archdiocese’s website features a section entitled CHURCH NEWS. It lists the title, illustration, first few lines, and link to the nine or ten most recent articles in descending chronological order, the last of which gets bumped to page two of Church News each time a new article is posted at the top of the list.  As reported in our Beyond the Pale of Nauseating: Adulterous, Predatory, Former Metropolitan’s Final Auto-Hagiography of October 26,  it was here that we were shocked to discover the former Metropolitan’s self-worshipping farewell letter (also dated October 26) to the Archdiocese—including “his” priests—complete with a photo of his smug face that no one wants to see anymore. In our preface to his letter we wrote:

Most outrageous of all is that this garbage was allowed to appear on the Archdiocese’s website. It shines a stark light on the Patriarchate’s farcical handling of this scandal after Orthodoxy in Dialogue had repeatedly urged the cynics and skeptics among our readers to trust the Patriarch and the Synod to do the right thing. It turns out that the cynics and skeptics were right.
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Sergei Semionovich Troitsky

August 8, 1881 ~ November 2, 1910

Memory Eternal ~ Вѣчная Память

Friend and Intended Life-Companion (Спутник Жизни, “Husband”) of Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky

The following excerpts from the introduction to The Pillar and Ground of the Truth are a kind of love letter from Pavel Florensky to Sergei Troitsky, his roommate at the Moscow Theological Academy. Today marks the 112th anniversary of Sergei’s murder. May his memory be eternal.

My meek one, my radiant one! Our vaulted room greeted me with coldness, sadness, and loneliness when I opened its door for the first time after my trip. But, alas, I entered it alone, without you. But you are not with me, and the whole world seems deserted. I am alone, absolutely alone in the whole world.  Read More

NB: Auttomatic/WordPress has been compelled by court order to remove our articles referencing Josiah Trenham in the Sexuality and Gender section of our Archives 2017-19 and the Josiah Trenham: The Scandal section of our Archives 2020-22.

Those links in our Archives will now direct you to the original articles preserved at the Wayback Machine.

AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER 2022

One Million Thanks!

Memory Eternal: Matushka Anne Hopko

The Prophet Muhammad’s Affection for Christians

Time to Boycott Uncut Mountain Press

Leaked: Metropolitan Joseph under Investigation for 16-Year Affair with Married Woman

Church of Ukraine Requests Ecumenical Patriarchate to Consolidate Global Orthodox Censure of Patriarch Kirill

Metropolitan Joseph’s Affair: The Email

Memory Eternal: Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware)

From the Public Record: Metropolitan Joseph Co-Owns Two Homes with His Victim

 ROCOR Archbishop’s Thirst for Ukrainian Blood Makes National Headlines Read More

For context see the Metropolitan Joseph: The Scandal section in our Archives 2020-22 linked at the top of this page. The following brief announcement appeared on the website of the Antiochian Archdiocese earlier today.

Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East

His Beatitude Patriarch John X has invited the Antiochian Archdiocese’s bishops and Temporary Operating Committee to meet with him and the Patriarchal Vicar, Metropolitan Antonios of Zahle, Baalbek and Dependencies, at the Balamand, Lebanon to begin the process of nominations and election of a new metropolitan for North America. Following the meetings from Nov. 9-11, 2022, the Patriarchal Vicar will come to the Archdiocesan headquarters in Englewood, New Jersey to assume his duties. Read More