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The Position of Bp. Kirykos’ Romanian Counterparts
Regarding Re‐Baptism is Extremely Hypocritical
The Romanians who are in communion with Bp. Kirykos require all
New Calendarists, Florinites, Glicherians, ROCOR faithful, etc, to be re‐
baptized, even if their baptism was performed in the canonical manner, by
triple immersion and invocation of the Holy Trinity. They have even begun
re‐baptizing people who had already been received into the Matthewite
Church by chrismation. Thus, in Cyprus, several laymen who had been
received even decades ago by chrismation, are now being rebaptized by the
Romanian bishop Parthenios! So then, one might ask, all of these years were
they communing or not? If they were communing as members of the Church,
then how is it that they are now being regarded as foreign to the Church and
in need of baptism? This isn’t Orthodox ecclesiology, it is blasphemy against
the Holy Spirit, a crime that the Lord has declared to be unforgivable.
But this very act of rebaptizing by the Romanians is extremely
hypocritical considering their own origins. The truth is that according to their
own principles, they themselves are very much in need of being rebaptized.
This is because the Romanian bishops derive their Apostolic Succession from
Bishop Victor Leu, who was consecrated in 1949 by three bishops of the
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. The main consecrating hierarch who
actually passed the Apostolic Succession (for the other two were mere
witnesses, as is the case), was Metropolitan Seraphim (Lyade) of Berlin.
Metropolitan Seraphim was actually born into a Protestant family and
was “baptized” by sprinkling in the Lutheran Church. When he was received
into the Russian Orthodox Church, he was received by mere chrismation,
despite not having the correct form of baptism. He was then elevated to the
deaconate and priesthood within the Russian Orthodox Church. However, on
1st of September, 1923, he was “consecrated” as a “bishop” by Renovationist
hierarchs who had been anathematized a year earlier by Patriarch St. Tikhon.
In 1929, the Renovationist “bishop” Seraphim Lade was received into
communion by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, but he was not
reordained nor was a cheirothesia read on him, but he was received by mere
repentance. Thus, according to the strict point of view, Metropolitan
Seraphim Lyade was both un‐baptized and un‐consecrated! Yet this
Metropolitan Seraphim is the very source of priesthood of the Romanian
hierarchs. Thus, if they have their origins from a bishop who was un‐baptized
and un‐consecrated, how is their baptism and priesthood valid? If the
Romanian hierarchs are so strict that they reject economia, should they not be
the first to re‐enter the baptismal font before they dare to re‐baptize others?
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