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Bye-bye Bishop Nikolai #288715 05/13/08 05:42 PM
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 250 The Oak Tree Secret Squirrel Byzantine Secret Service Member
Secret Squirrel Byzantine Secret Service Member Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 250 The Oak Tree	It's official, the synod of the OCA has retired Bishop Nikolai as of today from the Diocese of Alaska. Finally, some housecleaning! Now if they only can get past the dusting. Official OCA news release [oca.org] ocanews.org story [ocanews.org]

Re: Bye-bye Bishop Nikolai Secret Squirrel #288716 05/13/08 05:46 PM
Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 6,595 Likes: 1 Glasgow, Scotland O Our Lady's slave Member
Our Lady's slave Member O Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 6,595 Likes: 1 Glasgow, Scotland	I hope that this definitive action will now bring peace and healing to all those in Alaska who have been affected by the struggles there

Re: Bye-bye Bishop Nikolai Our Lady's slave #288729 05/13/08 11:30 PM
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Etnick Member Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,134 Likes: 1 West of Johnstown	Great news! This lessens the pain of the migraine that the OCA has right now.

Re: Bye-bye Bishop Nikolai Etnick #288734 05/14/08 02:48 AM
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Irish Melkite Global Moderator Member Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 10,090 Likes: 16 Massachusetts	Prayers for Bishop Nikolai, Metropolitan Herman, and all the hierarchs, clergy, and faithful of the OCA, especially those of the Diocese of Alaska "One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."

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