Fr. Seraphim (Rose) is a saint, says Metropolitan of Morphou

Morphou, Cyprus, September 6, 2022

A Greek icon of Fr. Seraphim (Rose). Photo: uncutmountainsupply.com A Greek icon of Fr. Seraphim (Rose). Photo: uncutmountainsupply.com     

Fr. Seraphim (Rose) is a saint and a personal inspiration in the ministry of His Eminence Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou of the Cypriot Church, the hierarch himself said in a recent homily.

On September 2, His Eminence served at St. Mamas Monastery in occupied Morphou in northern Cyprus. The day coincided with the 40th anniversary of the repose of Blessed Fr. Seraphim, and the Metropolitan took the opportunity to tell the people about him.

Though he was once a great sinner, he became a saint, Met. Neophytos preached. Moreover, his sainthood has been confirmed by other saints, he said, though without specifying which other saints. The Metropolitan is known to have been acquainted with a number of saints, elders, and eldresses.

He is also well known for speaking of prophecies, signs of the times, and things to come, and as he told the gathered faithful, it was reading Fr. Seraphim’s books that opened his eyes and helped set him on this path.

Met. Neophytos begins to speak about Fr. Seraphim at about the 19:50 mark:

As OrthoChristian reported yesterday, Fr. Seraphim’s sainthood was also testified to by His Eminence Metropolitan Nikoloz of Akhalkalaki and Kumurdo and Kari of the Georgian Orthodox Church, who attended the pilgrimage at St. Herman’s Monastery in Platina, California, in honor of Fr. Seraphim’s 40th anniversary to help inspire the movement to formally canonize Fr. Seraphim among the saints.

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9/6/2022

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Comments
Jason Hunt5/24/2023 2:24 pm
Fr. Seraphim did not “die in schism” but reposed as a hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) to which St. John the Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco also belonged. ROCOR had to organize itself independently from the Moscow Patriarchate when the Soviets tried to take over and suppress the Church in Russia. The Church in Russia wasn’t free at that time but was heavily influenced and controlled by the Soviets, and St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, issued an Ukaz giving the bishops a blessing to organize themselves separately from the MP during this time. ROCOR continued to remain in communion with other local Orthodox churches including the Serbian and Jerusalem Patriarchates. Fr. Seraphim’s monastery did go into schism from ROCOR after his repose, but has since been received under the Serbian Patriarchate.
Editor9/8/2022 10:45 pm
Bertinos: Fr. Seraphim was never in schism. You are confusing this with the break from ROCOR that occurred in his monastery, some years after his death.
Bertinos9/8/2022 3:23 pm
I agree, but - according to Fr. Damascene's biography - didn't he die in schism (which only ended years after his death)?
Benjamin9/6/2022 5:58 pm
FSR’s “Orthodoxy And The Religion Of The Future” is literally the best Christian apologetics book ever written and one I can’t recommend enough. It’s great because it follows the Sherlock Holmes approach: when you disprove everything that’s not possible, whatever remains must be the truth (paraphrasing from memory). It also gets into the various spiritual issues that todays youth (Millennials and Zoomers) will actually find interesting or potentially swayed away from Orthodoxy due to: UFOs, Hinduism, tantra, new age-ism, Wicca, etc. Very few books touch on these contemporary issues
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