1) To the ecumenical so-called Branch Theory, according to which the Church
of Christ consists of many separated denominations (schisms): Anathema! Anathema
likewise to those who preach this false doctrine, share it, accept it, or are
indifferent to it. For thereby they deny the uniqueness of the Church of Christ
as expressed in the ninth article of the Nicene Symbol of Faith: "I believe in
One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church".
2) To the dogmatic Constitutional Basis of that heretical assembly, the
World Council of Churches, which declares that: "The World Council of Churches
is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and
Saviour according to the Scriptures and therefore seek to fulfill together their
common calling to the glory of the one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit", and
to those who consider a general confession of belief in Christ according to the
Scriptures as sufficient for unity, there by totally denying Holy Tradition, and
who at the same time recognize the various heretical assemblies as Churches of
God, and consider their heretical doctrines to be based on Holy Scripture,
rather than as false and willful interpretations (which is the very essence of
heresy): Anathema!
3) To the ecumenical doctrine which recognizes the assemblies of the
heretics as grace-bearing and possessing uninterrupted Apostolic Succession,and
which considers possible a "union" between the Orthodox and Non-Orthodox
Churches (see: "Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate", No. 2, 1961, p. 69)without
a unity in Faith, or based on the concept of so-called doctrinal minimum, which
has been openly proclaimed at the various ecumenistic gatherings and expressed
in official documents: Anathema!
4) To the documents adopted as a result of the "theological" dialogue held
between the Orthodox and Monophysites (Chambésy, Switzerland, 1990, 1993),in
which both are recognized as Orthodox, and the Monophysites' Christological
heresy is declared to be Orthodox doctrine, where by the Forth Ecumenical
Council at Chalcedon is rejected and condemned, and all subsequent Ecumenical
Councils are ignored: Anathema!
5) To the documents adopted as a result of the "theological" dialogue
between the pseudo-Orthodox and the Papists, in particular the so-called
Balamand Unia (1993), which refers to the Papist assembly as a "Sister Church",
and which declares that it possesses grace and uninterrupted Apostolic
Succession, that its sacraments are true, and which forbids proselytizing (i.e.,
the conversion from the Papal error to the saving faith of the Orthodox Church):
Anathema!
6) To those who unlawfully "lifted" the Anathemas placed on the Papist
assembly in 1054, and to those who did not resist this lawlessness and by this
very act placed themselves in opposition to the Holy and Great Synods held in
Constantinople (in 1341, 1347, and 1351) which condemned the Papal innovation,
and likewise to those who do not consider Papism to be a heresy and who consider
ecclesiastical union with the Latin heretics to be admissible: Anathema!
7) To the agreement reached in Antioch in 1991, as a result of which the
Orthodox Church of Antioch entered into full ecclesiastical union with the
Syrian Monophysites, the Jacobites: Anathema! Anathema to all those who do not
consider Monophysites to be heretics and who do not avoid prayerful and
eucharistic communion with them. For they have all been anathematized by the 630
Holy Fathers present at the Four th Ecumenical Council held in Chalcedon,and
remain under ban now and in the age to come.
8) To the so-called New Style, which appeared as a result of the
introduction of the Papal Gregorian Calendar into the Orthodox Church, and which
is totally inadmissible canonically, and constitutes a dogmatic-ecclesiological
heresy inasmuch as it rejects the holy doctrines, Tradition, and liturgical
unity of the Church, as well as the ninth article of the Nicene Symbol of Faith:
"I believe in One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church": Anathema! (For it is
not possible both to keep the Fast and to celebrate Christmas or Pascha in one
and the same Church, and at one and the same time -- as occurs in the
ecumenistic pseudo-Orthodox assemblies.) The Papal Calendar has already been
condemned by Canon I of the Local Council of Antioch and by the Local Councils
of Constantinople (in1583, 1587, and 1598).
"Whosoever does not follow the customs of the Church which the seven Holy
Ecumenical Councils have decreed, and the Holy Pascha and calendar which they
have enacted well for us to follow, but wants to follow the newly-invented
Paschalion and the new calendar of the atheist astronomers of the Pope, and,
opposing them, wishes to overthrow and destroy the doctrines and customs of the
Church which we have inherited from our Fathers, let any such have the anathema
and let him be outside of the Church and the Assembly of the Faithful.
"We exhort all pious and Orthodox Christians: remain in those things which
you learned and in which you were born and bred, and when the times and
circumstances call for it, shed your very blood in order both to keep the Faith
given us by our Fathers and to keep your confession."
Jeremias II, Patriarch of Constantinople Silvester, Patriarch of Alexandria
Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem and the rest of the Bishops of the Synod who
were present (Constantinople, 1583)
9) To those who flouted the resolutions of the aforementioned Councils
condemning and banning the Gregorian Paschalion and calendar, and who willfully,
treacherously, and forcibly introduced this novelty into the Church, or who
support the New Style and attempt to establish it in the Church or are
unscrupulous and indifferent in their relations with the excommunicated
adherents of the New Style, and who do not wish to severe ecclesiastical union
with them: Anathema! Let them read again the words of the Anathema pronounced by
His Holiness, Cyril V, Patriarch of Constantinople upon the innovators in his
"Sigillion" of 1756.
10) To the heretical and blasphemous ecumenistic "liturgies" (e.g.,
theso-called Lima Liturgy) in which "members of the Orthodox Church"
participate, likewise to the common services during which Orthodox Christians
pray together with heretics and take part in various "sacred rites", whereby
abomination is introduced into the Church, and in violation of the Tenth,
Forty-fifth, and Eighty-fifth Apostolic Canons and Canon Thirty-three of the
Local Council of Laodicea: Anathema! Anathema also to those who give the Body
and Blood of Christ to the heretics, or who receive their false "communion" from
them. Anathema to those who serve other ecclesiastical Mysteries for the
heretics, or participate in their "sacraments".
11) To those who pray with pagans, shamans, magicians, priests and wizards
of heathen cults, and to those who join in their meditation sessions and cultic
rituals, or who conduct "divine services" at their "altars", and to all the
participants in the various Pan-ecumenical Sundays: Anathema!
12) To all the other heretical doctrines and documents of the ecumenists
which were jointly prepared by them and which they now seek to secretly and
stealthily introduce into the Church: Anathema!
To those who do not reverence the dogmatic and canonical teachings of the
Orthodox Church, Her Holy Tradition and practices, and who attempt to introduce
the spirit of Renovationism into the Church of Christ: Anathema!
To those who sympathize with the aforementioned and anathematized doctrines
and acts, and who attempt to defend and justify them, or who assume an attitude
of lukewarm indifference towards them: Anathema!
To all the heresies and heretics anathematized by the Ecumenical and Local
Councils, we, together with the Holy Fathers, proclaim: Anathema!
