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What I got from this week’s Come, Receive the Light:

1. SCOBA, through their media outlet, the Orthodox Christian Network, believes that his all-holiness Patriarch Bartholomew I, Patriarch of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch, is “the leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians.”
2. SCOBA also thinks that Archbishop Demetrios of Xanthos is the “Archbishop of America.” (Tell me again which state Xanthos is in?)

I imagine these inaccuracies would be corrected before airtime if there were members of other jurisdictions on the staff of OCN.

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   Jim N. Says:
   November 29th, 2006 at 9:01 am

   “I imagine these inaccuracies would be corrected before airtime if there were members of other jurisdictions on the staff of OCN.”

   I imagine you’re right. patriarchate.org essentially says that if you’re not part of a mother patriarchate or your autocephaly isn’t recognized by Constantinople, then you’re under Constantinople. Bet that’s news to the OCA! 😉

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   Matthew the Curmudgeon Says:
   November 29th, 2006 at 7:01 pm

   Well, Xanthos does SOUND cool! I wonder if SCOBA decided this in a ‘democratic’ vote or if they went by seniority of the Orthodox churches established in North America?
   Constantinople has never recegized the autocephaly of the OCA and with all that’s going on in the various Russian jurisdictions the OCA may have to return home to mama(Moscow Patriarchate) to receive recognition from C. Fun stuff all around.
   (Were the Greeks here first?)

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   Jim N. Says:
   December 4th, 2006 at 10:59 pm

   Interestingly, I’ve heard that the OCA will return to Moscow.