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    This document announces that the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece has recognized the Venerable Pachomios of Chios as a saint. It provides biographical details of Pachomios, noting that he opposed ecumenism and was the founder of two monasteries on Chios that upheld Holy Tradition. The first celebrations of his feast will take place on October 13/26 at the Holy Skete of the Holy Fathers on Chios, with Great Vespers, and on October 14/27, with Matins and Divine Liturgy celebrated by the Archbishop of Athens. Believers are encouraged to attend if able.

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    This document announces that the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece has recognized the Venerable Pachomios of Chios as a saint. It provides biographical details of Pachomios, noting that he opposed ecumenism and was the founder of two monasteries on Chios that upheld Holy Tradition. The first celebrations of his feast will take place on October 13/26 at the Holy Skete of the Holy Fathers on Chios, with Great Vespers, and on October 14/27, with Matins and Divine Liturgy celebrated by the Archbishop of Athens. Believers are encouraged to attend if able.

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    This document announces that the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece has recognized the Venerable Pachomios of Chios as a saint. It provides biographical details of Pachomios, noting that he opposed ecumenism and was the founder of two monasteries on Chios that upheld Holy Tradition. The first celebrations of his feast will take place on October 13/26 at the Holy Skete of the Holy Fathers on Chios, with Great Vespers, and on October 14/27, with Matins and Divine Liturgy celebrated by the Archbishop of Athens. Believers are encouraged to attend if able.

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    ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ

    ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ
    ΓΝΗΣΙΩΝ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΩΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΩΝ
    ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ
    ΙΕΡΑ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΣ
    ΚΑΝΙΓΓΟΣ 32 (γ´ οροφοσ)
    106 82 ΑΘΗΝΑΙ
    ΤΗΛ. 21038 28 280 - ΦΑΞ 21038 47 365 Ἀναγνωσθήτω ἐπ᾿ Ἐκκλησίᾳ
    ΕΛΛΑΣ - GREECE

    Ἀριθμὸς Πρωτ. γ - 2023


    Protocol No. g-2023 Athens, October 9/22, 2014
    ΑΘΗΝΑΙ 9 / 22 - 10 - 2014

    ANNOUNCEMENT
    ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΙΣ
    To the Entirety of the Clergy and People of our Church
    Πρὸς ἅπαντα τὸν Κλῆρον καὶ τὸν Λαὸν
    τῆς καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς Ἐκκλησίας
    Beloved Children in the Lord:

    The Venerable
    Ἀγαπητὰ τέκνα ἐν Pachomios
    Κυρίῳ, of Chios (†1905) is already familiar to our flock and is already
    honored on the island of Chios through holy services and Icons that have been painted of
    Γνωστὸς
    him, and also moreἤδη εἰς τὸ
    widely. HeΠοίμνιόν
    was, inter μας εἶναι
    alia, the ὁ Ὅσιος
    spiritual guideΠαχώμιος ὁ Χῖος
    of St. Nectarios (†1905),
    of Pentap-
    καὶ
    olis,ἤδη τιμώμενος διὰ
    the Wonderworker. What ἱερῶν Ἀκολουθιῶν
    is unknown καὶ public
    to the broader ἱστορήσεως Εἰκόνων
    is that the Venerableεἰς τὴν
    Elder
    νῆσον τῆς Χίου,
    in question was a ἀλλὰ καὶ εὐρύτερον,
    formidable adversary of ὅστις σὺν τοῖς ἄλλοις
    the contemporary διετέλεσε
    pan-heresy καὶ Πνευ-
    of ecumenism at
    ματικὸς
    the time Ὁδηγὸς τοῦ Ἁγίου
    when ecumenism had Νεκταρίου
    begun to make Πενταπόλεως τοῦ Θαυματουργοῦ.
    its initial appearance. Τοῦτο
    He wrote some telling
    τὸcomments
    ὁποῖον thereon in a text entitled
    εἶναι ἄγνωστον εἰς “Concerning
    τὸ εὐρὺ κοινόν,the Heretical
    εἶναι Lutherans
    τὸ ὅτι ὁ and Calvinists”:
    ἐν λόγῳ Ὅσιος
    Γέρων ἦτοthey
    “If ever δεινὸς πολέμιος
    realize their error, τῆςtheyσυγχρόνου
    ought to returnπαναιρέσεως
    without a murmurτοῦ Οἰκουμενισμοῦ,
    to the Church
    ὅτε εἶχεν ἀρχίσει νὰ πρωτοεμφανίζεται. Χαρακτηριστικὰ
    from which they fell away. Synods, so-called union, and discussions are not needed εἶναι τὰ ὑπ’inαὐτοῦ
    this
    γραφέντα «Περὶ τῶν αἱρετικῶν Λουθηροκαλβίνων»:
    case, since there is no question of uniting entities that are at variance in polity, the mores
    and customs of which are mutually conflicting and need to be coalesced and brought into
    «Ἂν αἰσθανθῶσι κάποτε τὴν πλάνην των, ὀφείλουν νὰ ἐπιστρέψωσιν ὅθεν
    concord.
    ἀπεσκίρτησαν ἄνευ οὐδεμιᾶς παρατηρήσεως. Σύνοδοι καὶ ἡ λεγομένη ἕνωσις καὶ
    “They received
    συζητήσεις δὲν [the Faith] from us,
    ἀπαιτοῦνται ἐπὶand yet they
    τοῦ ran away. If they
    προκειμένου, διότιwishδὲνto return to theirνὰ
    πρόκειται
    ancestral Faith,
    ἑνώσωμεν κράτη oneπολιτικῶς
    thing alone διιστάμενα,
    is demanded ofὧν us:τὰ
    thatἤθη
    we goκαὶout to meet
    ἔθιμα them as soon as
    ἀλληλομαχοῦνται
    we learn that they are returning
    καὶ ἀπαιτοῦσι συγχώνευσιν καὶ συμβιβασμόν.to the Father’s hearth, fall upon their necks and kiss them;
    that we bring out their original raiment and clothe them therein, that we put rings on their
    Παρ᾿ ἡμῶν ἔλαβον καὶ ἀφηνίασαν· θέλοντες δὲ νὰ ἐπιστρέψωσιν εἰς τὰ πά-
    fingers and shoes on their feet, and slay the fatted calf, so that we might eat together and
    τρια
    makeἕνmerry
    ἡμῖν with
    μόνον ἐπιβάλλεται,
    them, for, being dead,νὰ ἐξέλθωμεν
    they have come δηλονότι
    back toπρὸς ὑπάντησίν
    life, and, των
    being lost, ἅμα
    have
    μάθωμεν
    been found; ὅτιreeking
    ἐπανέρχονται
    of stench, theyεἰς have
    τὴν been
    πατρικὴν ἑστίαν,
    cleansed, νὰ ἐπιπέσωμεν
    and, being ἐπὶ τὸν
    leprous and maimed,
    τράχηλον αὐτῶν καὶ καταφιλήσωμεν αὐτούς· νὰ ἐξενέγκωμεν καὶ ἐνδύσωμεν
    have been healed.
    αὐτοὺς τὴν πρώτην των στολήν, νὰ θέσωμεν δακτύλιον εἰς τὴν χεῖρα αὐτῶν καὶ
    “It is ridiculous to demand Synods for the sake of union in such a case.... The Eastern
    ὑποδήματα εἰς τοὺς πόδας καὶ νὰ θύσωμεν τὸν μόσχον τὸν σιτευτόν, ὅπως
    Church has Her Churches open and Her fonts full of water; him who comes to Her of his
    συμφάγωμεν
    own accord Sheκαὶ willσυνευφρανθῶμεν
    not cast out.” μετ᾿ αὐτῶν, ὅτι νεκροὶ ὄντες ἀνέζησαν καὶ
    ἀπολωλότες εὑρέθησαν, δυσωδίας ὄζοντες ἐκαθαρίσθησαν καὶ λεπροὶ καὶ λελω-
    Beyond
    βημένοι ὄντες this, the Venerable Pachomios was the founder of the Holy Skete of the Holy
    ἐθεραπεύθησαν.
    Fathers on Mount Probateion and of the Holy Monastery of Sts. Constantine and Helen
    Εἶναι γελοῖον διὰ τοιαύτην ὑπόθεσιν νὰ ζητῶνται Σύνοδοι δι᾿ ἕνωσιν (....)
    Ἡ ἀνατολικὴ λοιπὸν Ἐκκλησία καὶ τοὺς Ναοὺς αὐτῆς ἔχει ἀνοικτούς καὶ τὰς
    κολυμβήθρας πλήρεις ὑδάτων· τὸν ἐρχόμενον πρὸς αὐτὴν αὐθορμήτως, οὐ μὴ
    ἐκβάλῃ ἔξω».
    on Chios, both of them bulwarks of Holy Tradition on this island. Furthermore, he was
    the spiritual Father of Elder Moses, founder of the Holy Monastery of the Holy Archangels
    in Athikia, Corinth. He can, therefore, be truly characterized as a forerunner of our sacred
    struggle for Tradition and against ecumenism. In honoring the Venerable Pachomios, we
    honor Orthodoxy and her Traditions.
    Wherefore, the Holy Synod of the Hierarchy of our Church, during its session on Sep-
    tember 5/18, this year, undertook to confirm the holiness, already acknowledged on Chios
    and elsewhere, of our Venerable Father Pachomios of Chios.
    The first official solemnization of the Saint’s Feast will take place on the evening of Sun-
    day, October 13/26, this year (at 7:00 p.m.), with the celebration of the Festal Great Vespers
    at the Holy Skete of the Holy Fathers on Mount Probateion, Chios, and then on the morning
    of Monday, October 14/27 (at 7:00 a.m.), with the celebration of Matins and a Synodal Di-
    vine Liturgy, the chief celebrant being His Beatitude, Archbishop Kallinikos of Athens and
    All Greece, at the same location. Those able to do so are exhorted to come.

    At the behest of the Holy Synod


    The First Secretary,

    † Bishop Photios of Marathon

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