Ukrainian Apostate bishops Shostasky and Drabinko leading pilgrimage to holy sites of Greece

Vinnitsa, Ukraine, November 1, 2019

Former Metropolitan Alexander (left), Former Metropolitan Simeon (right) Former Metropolitan Alexander (left), Former Metropolitan Simeon (right)     

Following upon the news that Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece has officially recognized the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” and its primate, Epiphany Dumenko, the Tabor Pilgrimage Center of the Pereyaslav-Vyshneve Diocese and the Pilgrimage Department of the Vinnitsa-Bar Diocese of the OCU have announced a week-long pilgrimage to the holy sites of central Greece, reports Cerkvarium.

The pilgrimage will be led by the diocesan hierarchs, Simeon Shostasky and Alexander Drabinko—the only two bishops to abandon the canonical Orthodox Church in favor of joining the schismatic OCU at last December’s “unification council” put on by the Patriarchate of Constantinople and President Petro Poroshenko.

“This will be the first great pilgrimage to Greece after the recognition of our Orthodox Church of Ukraine by the Greek Orthodox Church,” the announcement notes.

The trip is scheduled for November 9-15, and will include visits to Holy Trinity Monastery on Aegina, where St. Nektarios’ relics repose, the Monastery of St. David of Evia, the relics of St. Alexei the Man of God, St. Philaret the Merciful, icons painted by the Evangelist Luke, the relics and cross of St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle, and more.

Delegations from the schismatic OCU have already visited Mt. Athos several times, which is under the jurisdiction of Patriarch Bartholomew, where they received by a few monasteries and shut out by others.

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11/1/2019

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In responding to the letter of Epiphany Dumenko sent at the beginning of the year, Abp. Ieronymos has officially recognized the OCU and Epiphany Dumenko as its primate. Defector bishop Drabinko sues His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry Defector bishop Drabinko sues His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry Defector bishop Drabinko sues His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry Defector bishop Drabinko sues His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry
Drabinko filed the claim for the “protection of honor, dignity, business reputation, and compensation for moral (non-property) damages” based on the Synod’s address to Poroshenko in which, according to the defector, his name is “mentioned extremely negatively.” Defector bishop Drabinko: Had I known about everything, I might not have gone to the “unification council” Defector bishop Drabinko: Had I known about everything, I might not have gone to the “unification council” Defector bishop Drabinko: Had I known about everything, I might not have gone to the “unification council” Defector bishop Drabinko: Had I known about everything, I might not have gone to the “unification council”
According to the former metropolitan, the conflict embroiling the OCU now actually began on day one at the “unification council.” All of the gathered bishops waited for Philaret and his “Kiev Patriarchate” (KP) bishops who waivered on whether or not to dissolve the KP, as Constantinople required.
Comments
Ioan11/4/2019 8:01 pm
Yes, these apostate former bishops should cease and desist and repent lest the seeds of their apostasy bring forth even more of the bitter fruits of contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, et al. that you cited without context from the 2nd Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, 12th chapter.
Ioan11/1/2019 7:07 pm
“Neither the Papist nor the Protestant church can be considered as the True church of Christ. The first was altered by a number of innovations and the accursed despotism [Primacy] due to which resulted the schism from the Orthodox.” St. Nektarios of Aegina These men must be seriously deluded if they think that St. Nektarios could bless this PR stunt.
Joseph Lipper11/1/2019 6:51 pm
"lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults" -Apostle Paul
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