Wednesday, January 04, 2006
SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ANTIOCH
This is some of what is available on the web:
Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
The Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch (Jacobite) (a statistics page)
The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch & all the East
Universal Syrian Orthodox Church (There is a declaration here signed by John Paul II and Patriarch Zakka) Here is their homepage.
The Orthodox Catholic Church of America uses the Vilatte succession. (That succession is also mentioned in the history of Martinism)
Aftimios Ofeish is mentioned in this website for the North American Holy Synod: Sobor, May 2002:
Our Church is celebrating its 75th Anniversary in this year of 2002 and seventy five years of American Orthodoxy within its rightful jurisdiction. The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America was founded in 1927 by the Synod of Russian Bishops outside of Russia with the blessings of the Russian Patriarch +Tikhon. The first Archbishop was +Aftimios Ofeish, a Syrian Orthodox Bishop of Brooklyn. It has continued quietly to serve its rightful jurisdiction despite the scourge of Communism, the Second World War, and the Cold War. The Church has survived through a spirit of altruism and highest spirituality and careful avoidance of political issues which have so schismed the Orthodox jurisdictions in America. Its members are small congregations in areas of high poverty and crime. We also have several consecrated hermits within our Church who are Hesychasts and in solitude meditate day and night on the Name of Jesus Christ.(emphasis mine)
The Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church of America (Scroll down. Aftimios Ofeish is mentioned here.)
There are more hits in Google, but I have to stop here for the present. Justin, does any of this connect with Martinism?
