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This is a very interesting account of a Nestorian bishop being recieved into the Orthodox Church in 1912. I have alot of questions about it and hope to have a good discussion with everyone once we all get to read the article.

http://araborthodoxy.blogspot.de/2012/11/a-non-chalcedonian-bishop-converts-to.html

Ray

The Bishop can not have been both "Nestorian" and "Jacobite".

I think he made the wrong choice, but we have no idea what his motivations were this far distant from the event.

This was a bishop of the Syriac Oriental Orthodox Church. There was however an Assyrian Church of the East bishop who joined the Russian Orthodox Church.

http://www.roca.org/bishop_john.htm

Guess this was posted right on the Centennial of this event?

Question for discussion:

1. This bishop was received into Orthodoxy through a renounciation of past errors and a profession of an Orthodox profession of faith. He was NOT baptized, chrismated, or ordained. By today's standards, would he be?

2. Would the Russian and Greek Churches have treated his reception differently? The Apostolic succession of this bishop seems to have not been questioned.

More questions later. Just want to have an open dialogue about it.

Ray

He was received according to the relevant part of Canon 95 of the Council in Trullo:


Currently, the Greek Orthodox and Syrian Orthodox Patriarchates of Antioch more or less do not accept converts from each others' churches. I can't think of a recent example of a non-Chalcedonian clergy member converting to Orthodoxy, but in all cases involving laypeople I'm aware of, it is done by profession of faith.