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Metropolitan Cyprian of blessed memory and the SiR never declared the other Orthodox churches to be without grace. In fact, he had a very good relationship with the former Patriarch of Jerusalem, Diodoros of blessed memory.

It will be interesting to see how this works out. Like I said this is good for the moderate Old Calendarists in Greece. There are some pretty extreme ones out there and the movement as a whole needs the moderate voices that these two synods, now one, bring.

Patriarch Diodoros is actually still around & he is in communion with the ROCA, the Bulgarian & Romanian Old Calendarist synods, & now with the GOC under Archbishop Kallinikos. They all view him as the rightful Patriarch of Jerusalem since he was "deposed" for secretly selling land that belonged to the Patriarchate, an accusation that the civil courts found baseless but nevertheless he was deposed. I have read that his deposition was really due to his sympathy for the Old Calendarists.

I agree that this will be interesting. I too pray that this union will bring a moderation to some that are extra-zealous among the Old Calendarists. A good article to read about the moderation needed is The Royal Path by Fr. Seraphim Rose which can be found here: http://www.synodinresistance.org/pdfs/2009/09/02/20090902aRoyalPath%20Folder/20090902aRoyalPath.pdf

You are thinking of Patriarch Irenaios, who succeeded the late Patriarch Diodoros.

Thank you. Yes, you are correct.