Greek Orthodox, Stop Supporting Homosexuality and Women's Ordination! (Letter to Archbishop Elpidophoros)

We received the attached letter from one of our readers.

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Enough is Enough

Greetings in Christ, Your Eminences,

I am writing to you as a concerned lay person of the Orthodox Church in the United States. There is a disturbing trend in American Orthodoxy that is being pushed by a small, yet vocal, minority based out of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University.  They produce and disseminate a plethora of research initiatives, publications, lectures, and an undergraduate minor in Orthodox Christian Studies.

Their benefactors include the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Patterson Family Foundation, the Jaharis Family Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the British Council, the Nicholas J. and Anna K. Bouras Foundation, and Leadership 100, among others.

This group consistently attempts to mainstream themes and teachings that are in direct conflict with Holy Orthodoxy and Holy Tradition, examples being homosexuality and women’s ordination.

They will soon be hosting an event at Fordham University titled “Seeking Harmony and Compassion: Pastoral Care and LGBTQ+ Orthodox Faithful.” Of course, we in the Church should minister to individuals who suffer from this cross to bear, as with any other sin, but you’ll find if you look deeper into this event, it is using nuance to push acceptance of these aberrations.

At a time when the secular world is being rocked with wars in Ukraine, Israel, and other places we inside the Church are being rocked with schism cause by non-canonical actions in Ukraine, that threatens spreading to the whole world Orthodoxy, now we have the actions which I mentioned above that seems to have the support of high-level individuals in the Greek Archdiocese of America.

With the scandals from the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham, the constant stream of scandals by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek Archdiocese of America namely: His support for communing of non-Orthodox spouses, his homosexual baptism in Glyfada, Greece, his scandalous remarks at the March for Life, and many others. I say, Enough is Enough.

Speaking not only on my behalf but on the behalf of thousands of other faithful Orthodox of every jurisdiction, I humbly ask that your Eminences on the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops, as well as the bishops in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia who are not longer on the assembly, to stand up for Holy Orthodoxy and stop these scandals from Fordham University.

I especially ask the Metropolitans within the Greek Archdiocese of America to stand up, I know you all are in a difficult situation, but this is happening in your backyard and the silence has been deafening. Myself, and many others from the Greek Archdiocese, have left for other canonical Orthodox jurisdictions.  Will you speak up when the pews are finally empty?

Believe me, you have support of faithful laity and clergy not only in the Greek Archdiocese but across every jurisdiction.

Enough is Enough.