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GREEK ORTHODOX PATRIARCHATEJERUSALEM

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Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross34th Anniversary of our Ordination to Hierarchy

To the most pious Mr. Theodore Kalmoukos, beloved Child in the Lordof our Mediocrity, Esteemed Publisher of The National Heraldand Journalist, Grace and Peace from God the Father

37-10 30th Street, Long Island CityNew York, 11101 USA

Responses to Your Questions Submitted us

1. Your Beatitude, how many years have You spent there in confinement?

Eight years. Since February of 2008, I am not able to leave my cell in the Patriarchate,which was given to me at the time that Benedict served as Patriarch, and where Icontinued to live after my election as Patriarch, and continue to the present day with thepower of God.

2. Let us remind the Greeks in America why You are confined, why do You not goout?

This imposition on me of exclusion from outdoor areas and the outside world and myconfinement to my cell and its courtyard took place two months after Israels recognitionof Archbishop Theophilos of Tabor as Patriarch, which was granted him followingpolitical pressure exerted on Israel by Greek-American agents and the then Greek Ministerof Foreign Affairs Mrs. Bakoyianni. Entrance to the Patriarchate was forbidden to two ofmy assistants, Archimandrites who were members of the Brotherhood of the All-HolySepulchre, the Greek-American Fr. Chrysostom Mezilson and Fr. Ireneos, who had servedthe Patriarchate the first as head of the Secretariats English Department, and the secondas President of the Patriarchates Financial Ministry since they refused to sign a preparedtext that the Secretary General of the Patriarchate, Archbishop of Constantina Aristarchos,was distributing to all the members of the Patriarchate, which I am also sending to you

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2together with the present responses, and which text was compelling them to cut off allcommunication with me and to consider me from then on as a monk.

Since then, two people, Aristarchos, Archbishop of Constantina, and Theophilos,Archbishop of Tabor, have locked the two outer iron doors. The result is that I am able togo out of my cell into the courtyard, where the Chapel of Saint Thecla is located, but I amnot able to leave this area and to go to other areas of the Patriarchate or outside of it. AlsoI am not able to enter the Chapel of Saint Thecla, even though I had keys to the gate of theChapel, because they have place a padlock on the door, the keys of which the above personskeep, as well as the keys to the outer gates.

3. How do You live? what do You eat? Do You have electricity? heating?

By the grace of God, noble people from the Old City who have known me for manyyears, as well as Cypriot and Greek pilgrims from time to time, bring me the necessities formy livelihood, which I pull up with a basket from the road of the Patriarchate to the roofof my cell.

After the crisis in May of 2005 and thereafter, the tray that is used for daily lunchmeals, which every member of the Brotherhood of the All-Holy Sepulchre gets from thecentral kitchen, was never given to me. Besides, even if they did give me food, I am notable to take it from the kitchen, since the outer doors, as I mentioned to you, are closed,and I cannot reach the kitchen area.

The Patriarchate has always paid the waterworks and the electricity for every roomwithin the Patriarchate from the central treasury. Its just that the water heater has brokendown, and no technician is able to come into my cell to repair it, and so every winter I heatwater in the kitchen to use for any bodily and domestic use.

4. How do You spend Your day?

With prayer day and night, reading, phone contact with my spiritual children, withthe outside world, daily pilgrims, friends, acquaintances, strangers, fathers of theBrotherhood, monks, clergy and bishops of other territories, who show concern for myhealth and for the resolution of the tragic situation that prevails in the Patriarchate. On adaily basis, from the window of my cell that faces Saint Helen Street, which leads to theAll-Holy Sepulchre, I greet the pious pilgrims who want to visit me but are not able, andtheir faces, warm with love, encourage me.

35. All these years, You have never visited a doctor for regular check-ups, for bloodtests to see how Your health is, or even a dentist?

On the one hand, they do not permit entrance to anyone, not even a doctor or a dentist,in order to visit me I have no teeth left saying that I have died, that I dont exist, that Ihave left, or they send anyone who wants to visit me to Aristarchos, Archbishop ofConstantina, who, after asking Theophilos, either doesnt respond at all to the pilgrims, orrefuses, saying that supposedly there are rules that do not permit this. On the other hand,even if they were to open the outer gates that I might go out of the Patriarchate, no oneensures that I may freely return to my cell.

Regarding this latter point, since so much has been said that this is not true - eventhat it is just an imaginary fear of mine, I would like to state that, in response to a relatedquestion of the President of the Appellate Court in Larissa posed to the defendant,Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina, during a trial because of the libelous defamationagainst our beloved Archimandrite Dionysios, most dear to us for many years and truly amember of the Brotherhood of the All-Holy Sepulchre, having served as Abbot of theMonastery of the Holy Cross and as Headmaster in Jerusalem: if Patriarch Irenaeus wentout of the Patriarchate, would he be able to return, Aristarchos said that: there is an issuethere, and that this is not certain.

6. How do You respond to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which alleges that You arenot confined, but self-confined, namely that You choose to be confined?

In accordance with what I have said to you already, every person thinking logically isable to easily comprehend that my living conditions constitute a type of custody andhumiliating, even inhumane, treatment, since access to the inner and outer areas of thePatriarchate have been barred from me. Once, a group of local Arab-speaking peopleresorted to the courts in order to obtain permission to enter so that they could visit me,since Theophilos refused to permit them, invoking asylum and the self-governance of thePatriarchate; and the court granted them permission, despite Theophilos will, and so thisgroup of pilgrims visited me. They had formerly sought the intervention of the IsraeliPolice, before addressing themselves to the court, but the Police had alleged that it is aninternal issue of the Patriarchate.

Now, Theophilos and Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina allege that the IsraeliPolice are responsible for visitations! The Lord says, I will judge you by your own mouth,wicked servant (Luke 19:22). Only if someone is imprisoned or in custody or under specialconditions that limit his freedom is the police responsible for transporting this individualor permitting visitation with him - except if, as Patriarch, I make use of the support

4provided by the state police for the safeguarding of my transportation or of my bodilyintegrity. Let them tell us, which of the two is this? There is no room for a third case.

7. If I visit Jerusalem next week, will I be able to see You?

Hopefully. But they will not allow you, as they have done to others, even my niece,who came from America. They did not allow her entry to see me face to face, and she leftfull of grief. No person, whether a relative or someone from my wider circle, has been ableto see me, regardless of how far they may have travelled, my dear Mr. Kalmoukos. Andeven if they permit you, hopefully it will only be so that they can pull the wool overeveryones eyes, to show that they are saints and that my lowliness is a raving lunatic, asthey allege. As soon as you leave, the same conditions of confinement will prevail.

8. Has Patriarch Theophilos ever visited you all these years? Has he called you, hashe shown interest as a human being, at any rate?

The last time we met was when I summoned him to my cell, in April 2005, and askedhim if he has anything against me, since I had heard that he signed a libel against me. Iwanted to find out the reasons for his confrontation, which he might have had against me.He assured me that he would never sign anything against me and that he is by my side.Shortly after, he put his signature on this document disavowing me, which they did nothave the courage to set before me in a synodal session, so that I might at least present adefense concerning all the matters of which they were accusing me, but rather theygathered signatures on foot, in the corridors, in the library, and in their cells, from aportion of the Brotherhood that did not exceed 35 out of the one hundred members of theBrotherhood. The remaining members, all those who did not sign, after the Pan-OrthodoxConference at the Phanar in 2005, were blackmailed, punished so that they might sign,while all those who did not sign were expelled from the Church in Jerusalem.

An unerring testimony concerning these things is the attached hand-written letter,dated April 4/17, 2005, of Metropolitan Palladios, now of blessed memory, of Ptolemais,one of the two Metropolises of the Patriarchate with a flock, in which letter he wrote:Your Beatitude, With special joy I proceed to make known to your Beatitude that I wasled astray and I signed the Letter against your venerable Head, that was being circulated,I revoke my signature as though I had not signed, and I am siding with your Beatitude. Irespect and love your Beatitude very much, and I ask for forgiveness for what I have done,and I ask for your compassion and trust. Seeking your Patriarchal prayers and blessings,I remain. In Ptolemais, April 4, 2005. With profound respect, Metropolitan of PtolemaisPalladios!

5The three members of the Ecumenical Patriarchates delegation, who, without mypermission, came to Jerusalem in order to clarify the matter, before the convocation of thePan-Orthodox Conference, vividly delineated Theophilos role in their report, whichcomprised the only basis for His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch in making hisdecision to my detriment. They state characteristically:

32. Prior to this departure, on May 10, from the morning until the afternoon,(the delegation) received His Eminence Metropolitan of Tabor Theophilos and theArchbishops Theophanes of Gerasenes and Aristarchos of Constantina in colloboration,who again expounded on the grievous situation that prevails in the Patriarchate ofJerusalem of ancient renown, and stressed the firmness of the resolve of their positions andof those who are in line with them and sought again the aid of the Ecumenical Patriarchatenot only presently but also in the future, because they have need of guidance. TheMetropolitan of Tabor was especially revealing, who with humility expounded, in a mostspiritual manner, on the situation within the Patriarchate, and the impossibility ofcooperation with the Patriarch of Jerusalem, who is no longer able to unite theBrotherhood of the All-Holy Sepulchre and who has done many things against thePatriarchate of Jerusalem that are not good, actions to which primarily his continuouscooperation up until that time, as he said, with His Beatitude Archbishop Christodoulos ofAthens had led him, but mainly those unknown clergy and laypeople who come fromGreece to the Brotherhood of the All-Holy Sepulchre.

Give heed to the phrases because they have need of guidance and his continuouscooperation up until that time, as he said, with His Beatitude the Archbishop of AthensChristodoulos (while two months earlier he was, the only one, ordained Archbishop by me),but mainly those unknown clergy and laypeople who come from Greece to the Brotherhoodof the All-Holy Sepulchre!, meaning our Archimandrites Chrysostom and Ireneos,members of the Holy Sepulchre Brotherhood from their youth, his terror day and night.

So the last bombs of the two triads fell, that of the Bishops in Jerusalem (Theophilos,Aristarchos and Theophanes) and that of the representatives of Ecumenical Patriarchate(Metropolitan Meliton of Philadelphia, the current Archbishop of Crete Irenaeus and Fr.Basil Gontikakis), against a) the Autocephaly of our Patriarchate, in need of guidance...and in the future, that is, up until the present day, your All-Holiness!, meaning, yourcrime is perpetual!, b) my Lowliness, c) His Beatitude Christodoulos, and d) my steadfastco-workers and Members of the Brotherhood of the All-Holy Sepulchre, supposedlyunknown, who did not pass Theophilos birth control test - the control of selecting mychildren - on me.

6Since then, I have never seen Theophilos again, and I believe that he does not have thecourage to speak to me or to face me, since the honor of the High Priesthood of Christ,which I had given to him alone, he betrayed, worse than Judas, as soon as he received itfrom my hands. And he has not repented, but he has crucified Christ and the Church again,having organized his treacherous plan step by step in cooperation with the interests ofJewish, Greek and American agents. Inasmuch as he has killed me, he calls me to repent,for what? That I ordained him? I believe that, if he sees me and hears me implicating oneby one the people and the methods that he used in order to ascend the Throne bydethroning me, he will faint, as has happened to him several times, especially after theJordanian Government revoked his recognition in 2007.

9. What do the Bishops and other clergy, who constitute the Brotherhood of the All-Holy Sepulchre, say? Do they communicate with You?

I communicate daily by telephone with the Monks, Clergy and Bishops of theBrotherhood of the All-Holy Sepulchre. They cannot visit me, since the gates are locked,not even from the railings or the window at the gates, because the cameras that are therewill locate them, and afterward they will suffer consequences from Theophilos. Bishops ofthe Patriarchate hear from Theophilos mouth the next day, what they had just said the daybefore on the telephone, receiving a penance for this. The removal of Metropolitan of PetraCornelius from the Synod is a characteristic example.

They express their pain and grief to me on the phone and that with caution; theyfear the consequences from Theophilos, as soon as learns that they are speaking with me.

They are astonished at Theophilos continuous transactions, and the fact that he keepshis position by standing on strong shoulders with the distribution of the Patriarchatesestate to powerful men, such as Prince Emir Gazi of Jordan.

The King has always honored me. He knows about the injustice of my dethronement,which is contrary to the Sacred Canons, and he knows even better about the falsity of theaccusations. I esteem him and respect him. However, since Patriarchal land by the JordanRiver on the Jordanian side was ceded by Theophilos to the Prince, and from there, to thePatriarchate of Moscow, resulting the creation of a Church and Hotel, the Prince drinkswater in the name of Theophilos, and he has become Theophilos executive agent, carryingout his decisions in Jordan, removing Archimandrite Christophoros from the Monasterythat he had built with his labor and blood, the only Monastery of the Patriarchate inJordan, indeed threatening him with deportation!, since Theophilos regarded the aboveArchimandrite as responsible for stirring up everyone in an uproar against him andtherefore against the parliament of the state!, and he sought the aid of the Prince in

7expatriating him from Jordan. Whereas the flock has a thousand reasons to shout out thatTheophilos is unworthy, even now, in every Divine Liturgy that is celebrated in theChurches of the Patriarchate in Jordan, but also in Ramallah, the capital of the PalestinianAuthority.

The misleading situation that Theophilos has caused for agents of Jordan has reachedthe point, where they regard anyone who is with me or who is against Theophilos as setagainst the King and the Jordanian State! In this manner Theophilos attempted to quiet thetempest of peoples reactions against him because he has done none of those things inJordan, which he signed, both he and Mrs. Bakoyianni, concerning the application of theJordanian Law regarding the Patriarchate.

Furthermore, Theophilos has signed a document that Jordan has the responsibility forthe protection and operations of the Orthodox Sites of Pilgrimage in the Holy Land,making the Jordanians allies, while he gained the support of the Israelis by selling land toJewish companies, and by not applying the Jordanian Law, showing the Israeli State thathe is acting in accordance with the legislature of Israel, namely the Ottoman Law of 1878,which the Jordanian Law 27/1958 abolished.

10. Where is this situation heading?

With mathematical precision, we are heading toward the fragmentation of thePatriarchate, toward the loss of our capacity to manage and safeguard the status quo of theAll-Holy Sites of Pilgrimage, since Theophilos, in order to be on good terms with everyone,and to have the support of state and transnational agents, as well as that of religiouscommunities, is betraying the ancient rights of the Orthodox, assigning the repair andpreservation of the Universal Sites of Pilgrimage, such as the All-Holy Sepulchre andBethlehem, to companies, the administration of which does not safeguard the same pledgesfor protection as those of the Patriarchate; he delivered the keys of Bethlehem to the Latins,and parceled out the ownership of Patriarchal Land, thus creating a new geo-politicalreality in the region. This accusation was attributed to my person most falsely, as wasproven by the Government by agents who wanted to achieve precisely this end throughanother person, in this case, Theophilos. These agents are shadow companies that use himas their pawn for their plans in the Middle East.

11. What ought to be done so that this matter can be resolved?

If Theophilos had even the slightest sense of the inferno that he has created, he oughtto have already abdicated willingly from the Throne, upon which he ascended in anadulterous manner, in contrary to the Sacred Canons definitions.

8If the Members of the Brotherhood of the All-Holy Sepulchre did not feel the bronzehand, heavy with fear upon them, they would have would have thrown off the yoke ofbondage that Theophilos has imposed on their necks and on the Patriarchate, making it ahostage to enmeshed interests and relations, removing all sanctity from the institution,since he has not acquired Apostolic Succession, as there was no vacancy of the Throne ofJerusalem, and consequently, no canonical election, consequently the Synod that currentlygoverns the Patriarchate of Jerusalem is insubstantial.

The fact that the motive behind the scandal at the Patriarchate was political does notmean that we must seek political support. If the leaders of the Countries who were involvedwant to correct the errors of their representatives who played a leading role in the issue ofthe Patriarchate, it would be a fountain of blessing for themselves, because what is unjustis not blessed.

As soon as my bonds are loosed and I am able to come into contact with the Membersof the Brotherhood of the All-Holy Sepulchre, I will summon them to restore thePatriarchate of Jerusalem to its proper course of functioning. Now everyone knows whathappened and why it happened.

One of my first actions will be to criminally prosecute all those who squandered themoney of the Church, opening accounts in their names in London and anywhere else,whether they are ecclesiastical or political persons.

12. How do You respond to the Greeks in America, who are wondering how it ispossible that such things can happen next to the Tomb of Christ, a Patriarch to beessentially imprisoned?

Greeks in America who place their personal interests above our Race and Church aretraitors. One of them, I say this with sorrow, is Fr. Alexander Karloutsos, a Proto-Presbyterof the Ecumenical Patriarchate, who, after having ousted the Archbishops of AmericaIakovos and Spyridon from their Throne, opened his wings to cross the Atlantic andreached our Patriarchate. With his well-known liaisons and with the former AmericanAmbassador to Qatar, the Greek-American Patrick Theros, and the then Secretary of StateCandoleezza Rice, he persuaded the former Greek Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr.Scandalakis during their meetings in America, that Theophilos is the most suitable personto oust and succeed Irenaeus because he is a clever diplomat, as the former Ambassadorrecommended him to the then Greek Deputy Minister and to the Ship Owner Mr. G. C.Ventouris in his letters dated from February 2001:

9Ambassador Patrick Nicholas TherosCapital Investment Management Corporation6862 Elm StreetMcLean, Virginia 22101Tel: (703) 947-0870 Fax: (703)847-3068E-Mail: pntheros@canvest.com

February 11, 2001

Mr. G VentourisVentouris Shipping

in care of Capt. Imman. Petroupoulos

Dear Mr. Ventouris:

First, let me wish you and your family and colleagues my best wishes for a Happy andProsperous New Year. Second, please excuse for typing this letter in English and not inGreek but my ability to type in Greek is limited, more importantly it takes me three timesas long.

It has been some time since we have spoken and I regret that I have not been able toprovide you with much news. The battle in the Sanctions Committee of the UN SecurityCouncil continues without profit. However, recently, the Qatari Ambassador to the UnitedNations informed me that the Committee Chairmanship has changed. The new Chairman,the Norwegian Ambassador appears more sympathetic to our needs. The British delegationappears to have dropped its objections. The American delegation is now awaiting a policylead from the new administration. We should have more news by the weekend.

On the larger issue of LNG, we have been delayed because the company which we will joinhas not yet sorted out its own internal issues. However, it is still an active issue. We are notjust confined to Brazil, but may have some good prospects on both the East and WestCoasts of the United States. If this works out right, and if we are patient, VentourisShipping may be the first Greek company to break into the LNG shipping business.

I hope to have positive news on both subjects in a very short time.

Permit me to raise another subject which is extremely important to me and on which Iwould like your assistance. The death of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Diodoros, has openednew opportunities for either great success or great disaster for Hellenic Interests. The lastfifty years have been the most difficult through which the patriarchate has passed since thedays of the Latin conquest of Jerusalem and the slaughter of Orthodox Christians in 1098AD. You can imagine what several wars, the Israeli occupation, the Palestinian Revolt, therise of Muslim and Jewish religious fundamentalism and the expulsion of most Christians

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from Jerusalem has done to the Patriarchate. In recent years, the Vatican has mounted acampaign to take over the Holy Sites that are now under our control. Unfortunately, theproblem has been compounded by a succession of Bishops who have been uneducated andin many cases corrupt. Even those bishops who are neither have been tarred with the samebrush. I had the misfortune to have a first hand experience with this corruption. During1999 I brought investors from the United States to invest in several of the properties of thePatriarchate in Palestine. Despite a family friendship with then Patriarch Diodoros wewere blocked at every attempt by other Bishops who bluntly demanded payment or tookmoney from competitors. The age and bad health of Diodoros compounded the problem. Inthe end, our efforts failed as the investors were horrified that bishops would seek bribes.

The time has come to elevate a young, dedicated, dynamic and educated clergyman to thePatriarchal Throne. I and a number of prominent Greek Americans support the candidacyof the Archimandrite Theofilos Giannopoulos. He took his degrees from the University ofAthens and the University of Durham in England. He speaks English and Arabic as wellsome Hebrew. Father Giannopoulos first came to my attention when the late PatriarchDiodoros sent him to me in Qatar to start an Orthodox Church. He has earned the supportand respect of the Emir of Qatar and other senior officials. He worked in a number ofpositions in the Church of Jerusalem form parish priest in Galilee to representative of thePatriarchate to the World Council of Churches. Most important he is a smart diplomat,incorruptible, and dedicated to preserving Jerusalem as a Greek Church with a hellenizingmission.

The key elements influencing the election of a new Patriarch are the Governments ofGreece, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority in about that order. The Russians arespending a great deal of money to support the Secretary General of the PatriarchateArchbishop Timotheos - whom the Arabs find unacceptable because of his personalreputation. The Greek Government appears split with professional diplomats experiencedin the region supporting Father Theofilos. However, the Deputy Foreign Minister Mr.Niotis appears to be supporting Bishop Eirinaios who was the Exarch in Athens. Themajority of the younger Archimandrites, who do not vote but who are the future of thePatriarchate and the Monastery of the Holy Tomb, oppose the Archbishop again becauseof his personal reputation. I know that you are not without friends in Government andappeal for your intervention, if you agree with me on the need for new blood in the Churchof Jerusalem, with Mr. Niotis and even the Foreign Minister Mr. Panandreou. I would beprepared to come to Athens next week if you believe that I could visit with senior officialsand make a personal appeal based on my own experience.

I look forward to your answer and hopefully seeing you in the new future.

Best Regards,(Patrikios)Patrick. N. Theros

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His ExcellencyAmbassador Patrick Nicholas TherosCapital Investment Management Corporation6862 Elm StreetMcLean, Virginia 22101 U.S.A.Tel: (703) 947-0870 Fax: (703)847-3068

Your Excellency, Mr. Ambassador.Thank you very much for your letter of 11.2.2001.Regarding the first section, our business presence on both coasts of the United

States, etc., we will come back to this with care.Regarding the issue of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, having been counted worthy

to come to its aid repeatedly, financially and not only financially, as well as directly to thereposed Patriarch Diodoros, I have the following to report to you:

There was an Archimandrite, and for this I would have done everything, and notonly I my spiritual father and Elder, Archimandrite Dionysios, former Simonopetrite,whom his Abbot and Elder Aemilianos granted to me, too, as my souls and my familysdoctor and guide. He is a dynamic churchman, known both for his personality and for hiswork even on the other side of the world, for which reason those ambitious to succeed thepatriarchal throne exiled him martyrically, with his company, from Abbot of Holy CrossMonastery, Jerusalem: while as long as he was Abbot there, I personally took upon myselfthe renovation and maintenance of the Monastery for years, as I did PatrocratorsMonastery before. The would-be successors acted out of their fear of this present hour, inwhich even today, younger Archimandrites and Abbots within the Patriarchal court arecrying out about the crime and shouting for restitution, with the exception of the Exarchof the All-Holy Sepulchre, Metropolitan Irenaeus, who was in Greece then, too, when thisdrama was happening in Jerusalem, and is clear of the blood of this tragic martyrdom, onbehalf of which even the Foreign Minister, Mr. G. Papandreou personally, has been takingaction for the last five years. The Exarch, with whom, through my Elder, I am connectedindissolubly and inspired spiritually, is the only one suitable, qualified, acceptable,unimpeachable and capable for Patriarch of Jerusalem, as you, too, will be convinced andwill strive on his behalf, when you get to know him and be with him: His EminenceIrenaeus deserves that each one of us pray for him and make every possible effort to helphim be elected Patriarch of Jerusalem, for the good of the Patriarchate, of Greece and of theother Churches.

I hope you will come to Greece soon; then we can put all these things in place, aswell as many others, from close at hand.

With much appreciation and friendly greetings.

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George K. Ventouris

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ogether with his also well-known liaisons with the Jewish-American lobby, he persuadedauthoritative political centers to persuade Israel that their chosen one, Theophilos, is thecanonical Patriarch who must be recognized!

Rejoicing in this feat of his, the above Proto-Presbyter of the Ecumenical Throneannounced by phone to our Archimandrite Chrysostom after the elections in August of 2005that Theophilos is Patriarch now, we have to support him, and must later, in any case, when Icame to Jerusalem, I said then that I would make my tour guide, Theophilos, Patriarch, and Idid!

However the only thing that they managed to do was to exile Adam Theophilos fromParadise, and together with him, the generation that recognized and accepted him, so that God islaughing as He says, And God said, Behold, Adam has become as one of us, knowing goodand evil. And now, lest he stretch forth his hand and take from the tree of life and eat and liveforever! (Genesis 3:22). For this reason, we firmly believe that God will put an end to the evilthat Theophilos, who has fallen worse than Adam, has brought about.

And since May of 2006, an arrangement was made between Theophilos and theEcumenical Patriarch that the parishes of the Palestinians and Jordanians in America that belongto the Patriarchate of Jerusalem be subsumed to the Archdiocese of America: the two of themsigned the pertinent proceedings in Jerusalem on February 28, 2007.

For this reason, I ask the Greeks, our brethren in America, to pray for our Patriarchate andfor me personally, to not allow their fellow Greeks to war against the Church and to createschisms, but to respect the Autocephaly of every Church, its Institutions and its Representatives,and to not enter into the temptation of globalization within the Church.

13. How do You explain the silence of the Church of Greece, with the exception of afew Bishops who have raised the issue concerning You?

Archbishop Ieronymos knows better than anyone about the difficult situation in which Ihave lived since my election. Formerly, indeed during my first years as Patriarch, he had writtento me prophetically then as Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia (when he asked of me that theAbbot of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, Archimandrite Dionysios Kalambokas, return to hisposition as Abbot of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem with his brotherhood, who had been deliveredto my hands personally by his Elder Aemilianos and who had been driven out in 1996 by ourcommon persecutors): Your Beatitude, everything around you is being lost! I did notunderstand him then, but I experienced it later. He knew very well those things that others wereadeptly concealing from me or that I did not want to accept that they were happening here,namely that there is such malevolence and vindictiveness against me.

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I impute to him only one thing, that he did not immediately send me my steadfast co-workers and members of the Brotherhood of the All-Holy Sepulchre, which I had asked of him,and specifically the Archimandrite in question, indeed with his Letter of Release from here fromhis persecutors being non-canonical and invalid.

I know that he is most dissatisfied and deeply hurt because of my personal situation, whichis being handled inhumanely, and above all because of the situation in the Patriarchate. I thankhim from the depths of my heart, that his heart bends down to my martyrdom, and he does notpermit himself to set foot in the Holy Land without being able to see me, since Theophilos doesnot allow this!,

Archbishop Ieronymos is the only one who, due to his position, is capable of removing theabomination of his Predecessor against me.

I thank him for sending me Angels from his Church to see my martyrdom from close upand to ascertain with their own eyes, without being led astray by the sirens of this deceitfulage, such as him who up until recently was a student at the School in Zion and today falseExarch of the Patriarchate in Athens, with the air of a judge of the Inquisition, while the internetis full of photographs and articles of his exotic vacations with an escort, who has launchedlies directed by Theophilos to the ears of the Head of the Church of Greece, trembling togetherwith his assignor from their fear that the theater of the absurd is reaching its end. However hefound his judge, Metropolitan Ambrose of Kalavryta and Aegialeia, who is truly admirable andimposing.

Most of the Metropolitans of the Church of Greece know the truth; perhaps they have keptsilence publicly until now, so that the pearl might appear through the Synod, and behold, he isalready shining.

14. How do You explain the stance of the remaining Patriarchs and Heads?

Theophilos does not permit even the Patriarch of Alexandria to visit Jerusalem, because heknows that he will ask to see me, which Theophilos is avoiding as the devil avoids incense,according to the lay proverb. Thats why he is perpetually postponing the Patriarch ofAlexandrias trip with various excuses each time, awaiting my death, to which he together withothers like him has condemned me.

The Patriarch of Alexandria had not only understood that we were right at the Pan-Orthodox Conference at the Phanar in 2005, and on the eve of the Conference, he waspersonally stating to me until the middle of the night that he would support our positions, notout of personal sympathy but out of knowledge of the truth and recognition of the scandal and

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crime organized to his detriment; however at the sessions critical moment, he agreed withEcumenical Patriarch, who wanted my head on a platter, for reasons that he knows, and he got it!

The only Patriarch who ought to have forcefully stood against me, since the accusation wasthat I had sold property of strategic significance that belonged to the Patriarchate tocompanies of Jewish interests, would have been the then elder Patriarch of Antioch Ignatios,because he is Arab-speaking. However he played a leading role, through Metropolitan of BeirutElias, in not accepting my removal, since no actual accusation had been substantiated.

His daughter Church of Georgia [which has been wronged for centuries by false brotherswho reverse the Lord's words regarding the chief seats at banquets (Luke 14, 7-11 & 20, 46)],being listed 9th in the Diptychs even though since the 5th century its rightful place has been justafter the Mother of Churches, Jerusalem. At the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon, the See ofJerusalem received the honor of being 5th (as Rome had not yet fallen), as the city of Christthe Heavenly King, from the earthly king of that time, while it has been undergoing manglingfor a decade now, in our person], and the Church of Poland followed him. Meanwhile, theChurches of Serbia, Bulgaria and Czechia abstained, because neither did they sufficiently knowthe matter under discussion nor did they have time to study it, due to the hastiness of the Pan-Orthodox Conferences convocation, a fact which they even mentioned to the EcumenicalPatriarch.

The actual and genuine relations of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem with Patriarchates ofAntioch and Romania were literally burned, by virtue of the well-known initiatives ofTheophilos to their detriment and their representatives in Qatar and in Jericho correspondingly.

The Church of Greece was under fire at that time from the Government of Karamanlis-Bakoyianni-Scandalakis, and that which was written, Let my soul die with the Philistines(Judges 16:30), applied to Archbishop Christodoulus of blessed memory, who threw me overthe precipice in order to protect himself lest he be thrown over the precipice ultimately, by thosebearing offices in the Churches if the accursed illness had not anticipated him and hecomplied with apparently political pressures.

Unfortunately, Cyprus followed suit, since even though the current Head, to his credit, didnot identify himself with the unsubstantiated position of the Ecumenical Patriarch, the other twomembers of the three-member delegation of the Church of Cyprus shared the view of theEcumenical Patriarch; hence he would have been the minority if he had expressed hisopposition.

The remaining Churches, 7 all together, against three who were absent and four who wereopposed, were besieged with psychological pressure and the Ecumenical Patriarchs command

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toward me, Irenaeus, pacify the Church, that is, resign, and since I did not resign, theexhortation turned into a decree, Away with him, away with him, crucify him, for the peaceof the Church, in like manner to what is written, And it was Caiphas who had advised theJews that it is to their benefit that one man die for the people (John 18:14).

And I ask His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch, is there peace today in thePatriarchate of Jerusalem? in the Orthodox Churches? at the Holy Mountain? When he visitedthe Patriarchate, when he came again and prayed with the Pope, misleading him even more, didhe think of, ask for, or seek to see someone whom he himself crucified, his imprisonedOrthodox brother? Or did he ease his conscience, by thinking that I had willingly lockedmyself up seeking the seat on the throne?

In other matters, his All-Holiness is proposing and preparing a Pan-Orthodox Synod withthe other Churches concerning the unresolved matters of the Ecumenical Orthodox Church,while he himself, standing in the holy place, has fueled a Schism within the bosom of HolyZion, the Mother of the Churches, from which the Truth and the Light has sprung forth for theworld.

However, it is enough that His All-Holiness acknowledge the Ecumenical Crime againstme in 2005, and the Church will again sail on its course through the ages, because it presentlyfinds itself under perpetual ambush, such as that which was set up recently, and indeed, byBishops of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, members of the Inter-Orthodox Committee in Geneva,whose aim is to incorporate into a text prepared for the Holy and Great Synod, the positionconcerning the protection of the minority of another nature, which would constitute, if it isincluded, a treacherous revision of Orthodox theology and anthropology.

Whereas, no mention is made about the audacity and the brazen perpetrators of the changefrom the Old Calendar in 1924 and thereafter, after the Russian Church was stilled in 1917.

15. Did You voluntarily abdicate Your Throne?

In the report mentioned above, the members of the Patriarchal delegation state:

33. Shortly before our departure, the Greek General Consul in Jerusalem came toour lodging and greeted us, saying that the honorable Greek Government is most disquieted bythe way matters have developed, that the submission of the Patriarchs resignation would bedesirable and salutary, which will occur because, in the course of that day, as she said, theproceedings of the Sacred Synod (of the disaffected) would be recognized as lawful both by theJordanian Government and the Palestinian Authority.

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However, my holy brethren, I did not abdicate nor will I abdicate, as long as I am breathing,the Throne of Jerusalem, which consequently was not vacant not because of my insistence onany spiritual or administrative authority, but as a testimony of faith, of dedication to my Schema,to the All-Holy Sepulchre, to my Brothers of the All-Holy Sepulchre. I remain here for themand for Christ, even if the outcome of this is martyrdom, and I did not choose either theapartments, or the money, or the cars and drivers, that the Greek politicians offered me, andthose who came here illegally from the Ecumenical Patriarchate with the Deputy ForeignMinister Scandalakis were arranging it at the airport, pre-judging me.

So that the proceedings of the Sacred Synod (of the disaffected) would be recognized aslawful (consequently, they are not lawful) by the Authorities, and following on the heels ofthe prophecy (namely, the collusion) of the Consul General, Mrs. Helen Surani, you did thesame thing at the Phanar! A new ecclesiology, or rather heresiology, holy Metropolitan ofPhiladelphia, holy Archbishop of Crete and Fr. Basil! You name the disaffected a SacredSynod!, while you acknowledge that they are disaffected! Away with the blasphemy! Whatcourt will try your heresy and impose the penalty of excommunication, provided for by theSacred Canons?

No Pan-Orthodox Synod is able to recognize what is unsubstantiated, to legalize what isillegal, to canonize what is sacrilegious, or to bless what is unjust, just as no criminal systemthat renders justice within a state of law is able to justify what is unjust. An error can only becorrected, it is not clothed with a regal or political or ecclesiastical mantle, so that it can beacknowledged as correct, just as sin is eradicated by repentance, confession, imposition ofpenance by the Confessor - Spiritual Father, and remission, and never by committing another sin.

16. If I am not mistaken, Patriarch Bartholomew, then at the Meeting of the Heads ofthe Churches, had removed You from the Diptychs, isnt it so?

You said it well, because whatever was decided then at the Meeting of the Heads of theChurches was a decision of one person, namely of the Ecumenical Patriarch, which he alsoimposed on as many Churches as he could, he himself reading this to the world!

It is another matter, if the then external politics of Greece had imposed this on him or if itwere his decision, which he imposed on the Greek world everywhere, unto his judgement andcondemnation. I will not enter into the process of judging or thinking which of the two is worsethan the other; the results, however, have led our Homeland of Greece to the present abyss,which it is experiencing.

Besides, the aim and the consequences of this decision reveal its ethos, quality and contentand its agents, its perpetrators.

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In their report above, the three members of the Ecumenical Patriarchates delegation statewith respect to the commencement and aim of their mission:

2. As we were coming out of the airport in Athens, His Excellency the DeputyForeign Minister, Mr. Panayiotis Scandalakis, approached and greeted the PatriarchalDelegation, with whom we will have a lengthy collaboration with regard to the objective of ourmission. His Excellency stated the position of the honorable Greek Government to usconcerning the issue which had risen and divided both the Brotherhood of the All-HolySepulchre and the Church of Zion in general, which was caused by the not-so-effective mannerwith which His Beatitude Irenaeus, Patriarch of Jerusalem, was handling matters, and he saidthat the Deputy Minister himself has visited representatives of all three Governments involved,namely of Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, and he has ascertained an identity ofpositions; that today the resolution of this matter appears easier subsequent to the reaction of thegreatest possible majority of the Sacred Synod and of the Brotherhood of the All-HolySepulchre, which have denounced His Beatitude, the Patriarch of Jerusalem; that the aim of thePatriarchal Delegation ought to be the resignation of Patriarch Irenaeus, to whom the GreekGovernment will render the fitting honors, an economic allowance and a residence in the eventof his voluntary withdrawal...

Draw the conclusions for yourselves!

The Communiqu of the Ecumenical Patriarch, because no decision was even publishednor was it signed by the delegates of the Churches then, states:

A communiqu of the Synod of the Heads of the local Orthodox Autocephalous Churchesand their Representatives at the Phanar (May 24, 2005).

The Synod of the Heads of the local Orthodox Autocephalous Churches and theirRepresentatives (the Churches of Serbia, Bulgaria and the Czech countries and Slovakia werenot able to be represented), having come together in the All-Venerable, Patriarchal Church atthe Phanar at the invitation of His Most-Divine All-Holiness, the Ecumenical PatriarchBartholomew, on May 24, 2005, discussed the situation which was recently created in theChurch of Jerusalem, and, after long deliberations, was led to the decision to direct a brotherlyappeal to His Beatitude Irenaeus, Patriarch of Jerusalem, so that he might voluntarily submit hisresignation.

The Synod, not having convened as a court, sought this as a sacrificial act for thepacification of the Church.

When His Beatitude Patriarch Irenaeus refused to accept this, the Synod of the Heads ofChurches, with three abstentions, accepted the decision of the majority of the Holy Synod of the

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Patriarchate of Jerusalem concerning the renunciation of their Patriarch, which entails theomission of his name from the Orthodox Diptychs.

At the Phanar, May 24, 2005.

17. Can you explain to us what this means?

Whereas the Ottoman Law that Israel is applying does not even make provision for thedisavowal or dethronement of a Patriarch, look at what the Jordanian Law of 1958 prescribes:

Cessation of a Patriarch and Locum Tenens of the Patriarch.

Article 27. 1) The office of Patriarch is life-long, in accordance with canons of theChurch, yet the Patriarch is able to be removed and stopped for the following reasons:

a) if he demonstrates negligence and indifference pertaining to the dogmas of the OrthodoxFaith.

b) if he is assailed by complete bodily inadequacy or mental illness, which would hinderhim in exercising his religious and ecclesiastical-administrative duties.

2) It is necessary that the removal and cessation of the Patriarch attain the approval:

a) of two thirds of the members of the Sacred Synod.

b) of two thirds of the married priests, who are entitled to participate in the Patriarchalelection and who were present and voted in session, which was called and assembled for thispurpose, on the condition that this decision concerning the removal be communicated to thePrime Minister and the Minister of Internal Affairs and be approved by the Ministerial Counciland be ratified by His Majesty the King.

So I am asking, which of these two reasons substantiates my removal? Neither of them!

Where is the approval of two thirds of the married priests? There was no summons, or evena session, nor any decision of theirs!

Look at what significance the law gives this, and how it provides for the convening of thevoting priests into a body and for their vote in session for this purpose.

How much more so ought the approval of two thirds of the Synod have taken place insynodal session, and not by collecting signatures in the corridors and cells, at the same time that,as the canonical Patriarch, I was convening a Synod in the Synodal Chamber for the resolutionof the issues that had arisen, while the members of the Synod were gathering signatures bymeans of extortion from my wretched brethren, signatures that were missing for my

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denunciation, telling them that I sold the Patriarchate and whatever else their father of lies,Satan, was proposing them! And since I conducted myself as a compassionate father, mychildren, like Absalom, beheaded me.

The Appellate Court in Thessaloniki, in its decision No. 1938/1998, which refers to thesimilar matter from the canons 34 of the Holy Apostles, 9 of the Synod in Antioch, which wereratified by Canon 2 of the Synod in Trullo (Quintesext), it arises that, within administrativeunities, comprised of more Eparchies and administered by a Synod, the local bishops-membersof the Synod are entitled to handle all actions, the execution of which is confined within theboundaries of their eparchy and pertain to its administration, but that for any other action,having a more general significance and pertaining to the whole administrative unity, it isrequired that this be realized by the cooperation or approval of its head (Patriarch in thePatriarchates, or Archbishops in the remaining autocephalous, autonomous or semi-autonomousOrthodox Churches). Moreover, according to Canons 16, 20, and 19 of the Synod in Antioch,Canon 4 of the First Ecumenical Synod and Canon 30 of the Fourth Ecumenical Synod, a Synodwithout the presence of the head cannot be regarded as a Synod; it is headless, imperfect andpowerless.

And since one such non-Orthodox, anti-Orthodox, illegal decision, that was contrary to theCanons, anti-Christ, concerning my denunciation, had no binding force, they were concerned toratify it with the seal of Pan-Orthodox force, with the votes of the other Orthodox Churches,which did not even know about the law of the Patriarchate, neither had 7 out of the 14 OrthodoxChurches who were summoned even listened to it, when I read my Proposal to the Meeting,while simultaneously my fresh blood was dripping from the hands of those who disaffectedtoward me, who had been vested with legitimacy to speak within the Synodal Meeting, and theywere sanctified and justified by the Ecumenical Patriarch and all those who followed him!

That is why I attended the Pan-Orthodox Synod, so that my judges might hear how thesituation really is, and so that they might not have any excuse at the Second Coming, that theydid not know, but I was speaking in the ears of those who were not listening!

For this reason, since my denunciation suffers from invalidity essentially and formally, thebasis and the content of the Pan-Orthodox Meetings decision being defective, consequently mydeletion from the Diptychs constitutes an ecclesiastical action of negative recognizable content,which cannot enact law, that is, it cannot change the regime of an administration, the renderingof justice, or the judgment of the Bishops of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Neither can it thuslegalize the decision, which in all respects is illegal, concerning my denunciation, whichaccording to the Sacred Canons is faulty, unsubstantiated, that is, as if it had not taken place,and hence, powerless.

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For this reason, there is no Apostolic Succession in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

FOR THIS REASON,

I call on all the Orthodox Churches to cease recognizing Archbishop Theophilos of Taboras Patriarch, and to acknowledge our Mediocrity as the canonical Patriarch of Jerusalem, neverhaving been deposed, since the decision of the Pan-Orthodox Conference on May 24, 2005 is defacto unsubstantiated, with each one of the Churches duly acknowledging my Lowliness in theDiptychs of their Churches. Otherwise, they are in schismatic communion with the Patriarchateof Jerusalem.

If they are not convinced by my words, they will be convinced at the final Judgment by theimpartial Judge, but the Body of the Lord will already have remained until then Crucified,without having been taken down from the Cross, and Unburied, in the person of our Lowliness,they shall look upon him whom they have pierced.

18. Why didnt You also delete him from the Diptychs and stop commemorating him,but have tolerated this humiliation and this monstrosity of Your dethronement bythe Synod there?

Because the Orthodox Church has resolved everything. The protection of the accused fromany unjust or ungrounded accusation, judgment or condemnation is secured by the unique oreven excessive sensitivity in the internal Canon Law of the Church, which is inconceivable forany other system of common Criminal Law, such as the principle of suffering in kind for theaccuser, not only of a clergyman but also of a Bishop or Patriarch. The canonical penalty ofsuffering in kind means the imposition upon the accuser of the ecclesiastical penalty prescribedfor the misdeed of the accused, if the accuser was not able to prove, during the judicial process,the actuality of the misdeed attributed to the accused.

With this spirit, the 4th Sacred Canon of the 7th Ecumenical Synod states: we decree thatno bishop, making excuses in sins, shall devise means of making shameful profits, so that thebishops or clergy or monks serving under him demand gold, or silver, or any other commodity.For the Apostle says, The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God If, therefore,anyone, by demanding gold or any other commodity, or out of malice, is found to be excludingfrom the liturgy and excommunicating anyone among the clergymen under him, or closing avenerable church venting his own rage, he is truly insensible, and shall be subject to suffer inkind, and his mischief shall return upon his own head, as transgressor of Gods command and ofthe Apostolic Ordinances.

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With the same spirit, the 18th Sacred Canon of the 4th Ecumenical Synod (451) states: Thishas been wholly prohibited by secular laws, how much more so it is fitting that this be forbiddenin the Church of God, because if any Clergymen or Monks are found to be conspiring orfactionalizing or scheming against bishops or fellow clergy, let them by all means be deposedfrom their rank.

How much more so ought those who judge, when a Patriarch is judged by a Pan-OrthodoxSynod, judge fairly, without malice, without exchanges, but with documented conclusiveevidence, becoming examples to their flock.

And here there was no court, as is written explicitly in the Communiqu, yet a judgmentwas made, leading to an ecclesiastical punishment, namely our deletion from the Diptychs ofthe Church, the cessation of my commemoration as Patriarch of Jerusalem, a fact concerningwhich the Ecumenical Patriarch had decided beforehand by himself, having already sent me hisdocument, dated May 9, 2005, encroaching on the internal affairs of another AutocephalousChurch, and indeed a Patriarchate, in which he addresses himself to my Lowliness, as PatriarchIrenaeus, and not as Patriarch Irenaeus of Jerusalem, asking and recommending that I notadvance to the convening of a minority Synod and the ordination of new Bishops for thePatriarchate of Jerusalem, because that would be extremely dangerous and would cause greatharm within the bosom of the Brotherhood of the All-Holy Sepulchre and of the Church ingeneral!

Whereas, your All-Holiness, was the Schism that the disaffected fathers had caused withinour Church harmless, legal, innocuous, and therefore just, due to its majority support? Has theconclusive evidence concerning the accusations against me been found, evidence which you arestill waiting to receive from the scandalizer, Mr. Scandalakis, ten years after my condemnation,or should the principle of suffering in kind be applied? It has already been applied by theCrucified Lord. Your end will be tragic, Your All-Holiness!

And the Findings of the Legal Committee of the Palestinian Authority, which had beenissued after the hasty convocation of the Pan-Orthodox Conference by the All-Holiness theEcumenical Patriarch, exonerated us, absolving us from every liability, and the Findings of theGreek Ministry of Economic Affairs did not impute to me any civil or criminal liability for themanagement of the economic affairs of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, both as Exarch and asPatriarch.

At this point, I want to stress the following.

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Only in the reinstatement or introduction of Laws under the reign of Basil I theMacedonian (867-886), which according to many did not constitute an act of legislation but adraft of legislation of the dynasty of the Macedonian Emperors, which legislation was drawn upfor the most part by your Predecessor Patriarch Photius of Constantinople, was it defined that: j.it is lawful for the Presiding Bishop of Constantinople among the local regions of other thronesas well, in which no church has yet been dedicated, to give stavropegial churches, and not onlythis, but also to supervise disputes that arise among other thrones, and to correct and bring anend to crises (Reinstatement II, 9-10). This arrangement however did not constitute a canon ofan Ecumenical or Pan-Orthodox Synod, nor did it constitute the content of another SacredCanon.

Therefore, with regard to this as well, the intervention of the Ecumenical Patriarch in theinternal affairs of our Patriarchate by definition suffers from lack of validity, even if a portion ofthe Bishops of our Patriarchate sought that he intervene, since their Patriarch exists, and hesummoned them repeatedly then and waited for them in the Synodal Chamber for the Synodalarrangement of the issues.

19. Did this Synod have the right to depose You, a Patriarch, and indeed of an ancientPatriarchate?

No, in no way. Neither was the Pan-Orthodox Conference of the Heads convened as ajudicial body to judge me, but it sought that I proceed to the sacrificial act of resignation, towhich I did not proceed.

The factional synod that was illegally and uncanonically convened in Jerusalem by agroup of thirteen Members of the Brotherhood of the All-Holy Sepulchre, which ignored andcircumvented my Lowliness, the Head of the Church of Jerusalem, while I was canonicallyresiding in the Patriarchate, without having been deposed or having been legally removed,consequently, without the Throne being vacant, abrogated the canonical Sacred Synod of thePatriarchate, which functions based on Law 27/1958, Part 3, Articles 4, 5 and 6 of theHashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and is convened by the Head, in his presence. Therefore it ischaracterized as, and is, a Conventicle, according to the Divine and Sacred Canons of theChurch. What they did is a Desecration.

For this reason, through Patriarchal Letters under Reg. No. 323-334/July 2, 2005, after thedecision of the only legal and canonical Synod, which I convened on June 17, 2005, in whichMetropolitans Kyriakos of Nazareth and Jacob of Skythoupolis also took part, I dismissed thosewho had come together to form this conventicle from their administrational and synodal duties,including Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina and Archbishop Theophilos of Tabor,

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imposing on them simultaneously the punishment of ceasing from every liturgical celebrationindefinitely.

Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina, alarmed that perhaps through the aforesaidPatriarchal Letter that was given to him, he might be deposed, sent the Letter to the ProfessorEmeritus of Canon Law at the Theological School of the University of Athens, Mr. PanayiotesBumis, with the question that reveals the drama of his non-existent conscience, asking ifthrough this Letter, his deposition has been actualized. The Professor responded at his requestthat through this Patriarchal Letter, Patriarch Irenaeus has not imposed deposition(EKKLESIA, July 2005, pp. 564-565); as the Professor of Canon Law named me PatriarchIrenaeus, subsequent to the unsubstantiated twelve-member hierarchical court that wasconvened and formed on June 16, 2005, which had supposedly deposed me, thus he alsorecognized the invalid assertion of our dethronement.

I imposed a dismissal and cessation, by virtue of the rights ceded to me by the canonicallaw of the Church and the Bylaws of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, given that the Patriarch isalso the Abbot of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher, and that the composition of thePatriarchates Synod is special, comprised of titular Bishops, two Metropolitans with flocks, andArchimandrites, assistants to the Patriarch. And this dismissal and cessation are in force even tothe present day.

Then, this Conventicle elected a twelve-member hierarchal court, comprised of myaccusers in order to judge me, the head and Patriarch of the Synod, which court deposed meto the order of monk with summary proceedings and in violation the Canons of legal procedureof the Church (74th Apostolic Canon), so that no schism may occur in the Church. Thedecisions of this court and its consequences, deriving from an illegal synod, convened inopposition to the Sacred Canons, in this case a conventicle, produced an act that is illegal,conspiratorial, falsified, scheming and factional, originating from an unsubstantiated collectivebody.

20. Have You informed the European Union regarding these matters?

I have addressed myself, through a plenipotentiary lawyer, to the High Commissioner forHuman Rights at the United Nations Office in Geneva, describing the inhumane treatment thatI am enduring, but the response was that this falls beyond the scope his powers. I have notaddressed myself to the European Union. Israel has not signed the Agreement for the protectionof political and individual rights, and so it is not bound by the decisions of EuropeanCommunity Institutions on matters concerning the protection of human rights.

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21. Have You informed the American Government?

The American Government is being one-sidedly informed by agents of the EcumenicalPatriarchate, such as the aforesaid Fr. Alexander Karloutsos, who for forty years by the mercyof Iakovos of America of blessed memory (Godfather of the Ecumenical Patriarch, whoremoved him from his throne!), has been grazing together with American billionaires for ananalogous compensation, along with his associates, who have sullied me to such an extent thatall matters pertaining to me are regarded as not even worth mentioning amongst the lobbies ofAmerica, which he exclusively guides, as he boasts.

Would that from your tribunal, thse of Greek heritage in America and everywheremay be informed and all those Governmental Agents who want to know the truthconcerning the events that took place in 2005 and that led to the current grievous situationwith its future being the time when Christ will search if anyone of his own have remainedwhen he comes (Luke 18:8).

In the Holy City of Jerusalem, March 15, 2015

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IRENEAUS IPATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM

Notification: 1. To the 13 Heads of the Orthodox Patriarchates and Churches.2. To every canonical Greek Bishop.3. The Sacred Community of the Holy Mountain.4. The Pope of Rome.5. The President of the Greek Republic.6. The President of the United States.7. The President of Russia.8. The King of Jordan.9. The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs.10. The Ambassador of the Palestinian Authority in Greece.11. The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs.12. The General Secretary of the U.N.13. The General Secretary of the European Union.14. The High Commissioner on Human Rights.15. The Theological School of the Capodistrian University ofAthens.16. The Theological School of the Aristotelian University of Thessalonica.17. To every Orthodox Christian.

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