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Romanian Old Calendar Orthodox Church (Slatioara)

The Romanian Old Calendarists have been involved in many scandalous activities from almost the beginning of their existence. First of all, their first leader, Father Glicherie (Tanase), whom they now proclaim a “saint,” was clearly in prelest (spiritual delusion). He did not wish to submit to the leadership of the Greek Old Calendarists under Blessed Metropolitan Chrysostom of Florina (d. 1955), but wanted himself to be made a bishop for his Romanian people, as head of his own, independent synod. His spiritual blindness is further attested by his many “visions” and “revelations,” one of which said that in 1982 the Antichrist would enter the world.

Furthermore, Bishop Galaction (Cordun), the origin of the episcopacy for the Romanian Old Calendarists, was a Freemason who also fathered an illegitimate son (of Mrs. Lucia Calin). Cordun was a vicar-bishop and never actually had a see of his own, and he belonged to the State Church that persecuted the Old Calendarists for many decades. In 1955 he joined the Old Calendarists of Romania and became their spiritual head. In 1956 he single-handedly consecrated Archimandrite Evloghie (Ota) as a bishop, and then also Father Glicherie. After Bishop Galaction’s death in 1959, the uncanonical Bishop Glicherie became the leader of the Romanian Old Calendarists.

This church fell away from Christ even further in 1979, when the Romanians, under the leadership of “Metropolitan” Glicherie (Tanase), went into communion with the schismatic Kallistite Synod, an uncanonical synod that consisted of Met. Kallistos of Corinth, Anthony of Megara, and eight bishops they had secretly consecrated without the knowledge of the synod of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece. Even worse, the Romanians (whose headquarters is at Slatioara) thereafter also joined the “Holy Synod in Resistance” under the deposed heresiarch Cyprian of Fili. They also maintain communion with the Cyprianite Old Calendar Orthodox Church of Bulgaria, headed by Bishop Photii. Because the Romanian Old Calendarists have a very large number of followers, it seems they are unwilling to ever repent of their canonical transgressions and Cyprianite heresy.


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