Metropolitan Pavlos of Astoria Exposed
Channel: OrthodoxTradition
Date: 09/01/2014

Father Paul Stratigeas (now Metropolitan Pavlos) once said: "At Saint Markella's thousands of our Greek people attend services. But I have a problem of conscience because they are the spiritual children of Bartholomew, all of them. They belong to the Church of Bartholomew. I belong to the Church of Chrysostom who has specifically stated that we are not to provide the mysteries to those who follow the new calendar. Yet I provide the mysteries to the followers of the new calendar." (Interview given to Theodore Kalmoukas of the National Herald, which was printed in that paper's issue of Tuesday, May 24, 1994).

A zealot monk on Mount Athos told me that the GOC under Archbishop Kallinikos gives communion to new calendarists 100 percent of the time in Greece, and 90 percent of the time in America. This may or many not be an exaggeration, but the act of giving communion to new calendarists is forbidden by the GOC's 2002 Encyclical. http://www.hotca.org/documents/encyclicals/152-encyclical-regarding-holy-communion

Also, Father Paul slandered another clergyman in the GOC. No slanderer deserves to be a bishop. Clergy in the GOC are arrogant and standoffish. There is nothing spiritual about them. Stay with canonical and mainstream Orthodoxy.