Paisios and Vikentios are Summoned to the Ecumenical Patriarchate – New Abbot Elected (Updated)

Theodore Kalmoukos

Special to The National Herald

BOSTON, MA – Metropolitan Paisios of Tyana and Bishop Vikentios of Apameia – the former abbot and deputy abbot, respectively, of the St. Irene Chrysovalantou Monastery in Astoria New York will be summoned to the Ecumenical Patriarchate on March 27th 2012 for apology in front of the Holy and Sacred Synod. According to the canonicity and ecclesiastical order of the Church the Holy Synod in these instances becomes a Spiritual Court presided by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. Also the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate elected a new Abbot for the Monastery of Chrysovalantou in Astoria, Archimandrite Ierotheos Zaharis, former Dean of the Athonias Ecclesiastical School of Holy Mount Athos in Greece. Both former leaders of the Chrysovalantou Monastery Metropolitan Paisios of Tyana and Bishop Vikentios of Apameia are under the penance of liturgical suspension, which was placed on both in December 2010. Essentially, they are not allowed to perform liturgies or to celebrate any other services or sacraments.

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February 23, 2012