Signatures 110 total
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Name: Chris Stevenson on Jul 12, 2012Comments: There MUST BE accountability to the faithful regarding Synod and DioceseFlag
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Name: George Evanisko on Jul 12, 2012Comments: The Bishops expect us to be "Submissive" and "Obey"-- http://www.dowoca.org/news_120711_1.html -- yet scandal after scandal occur. Do they actually think we should ignore the forced resignation of our Metropolitan without any explanation?Flag
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Name: Athanasius Bennett on Jul 12, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Richard Shaward on Jul 12, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Aftan Romanczak on Jul 12, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Colette Kalvesmaki on Jul 12, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Lola J. Lee Beno on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Rich Mirilovich on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Natalia Caryl on Jul 13, 2012Comments: I'm a very active parisher at St.Nicholas Cathedral in Washington DC and supported in many ways our church and parish, won't do though in the future, if won't get clear answers why our beloved Metropolitan Jonah had to resign. We all the same before God, and Synod are also simple people. Answer to me as human to human, otherwise God will punish you.Flag
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Name: Monk Stavros (Lever) on Jul 13, 2012Comments: I believe that our bishops need to be accountable and who ever start this should step down also. I am upset by our bishops. I am no longer sure if this the church I want to be a part of.Flag
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Name: Susan Farris on Jul 13, 2012Comments: Metropolitan Jonah has many friends in the Roman Catholic Church. May the Lord keep him, and all our brothers and sisters in the OCA.Flag
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Name: Ksenia Panomarenko on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Veronica Gorodetskaia on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Irina Kuzina on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Greg Coogan on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Peter Von Berg on Jul 13, 2012Comments: The unanimous vote by the Politburo,er, I meant the Holy Synod, the forced confession, all reek of Soviet tactics.Flag
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Name: Alexander Slepukhof on Jul 13, 2012Comments: I understand and fully sopport this petition.Flag
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Name: Alexey Kovalenko on Jul 13, 2012Comments: Fully support itFlag
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Name: Marilyn Swezey on Jul 13, 2012Comments: There is no just cause for his forced resignation. The way it was done was uncanonical and the issue I have heard is based on falsified information. Thank you for posting this petition - I am happy to sign it.Flag
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Name: Clergy on Jul 13, 2012Comments: I fully support the petition in term that OCA bishops and all who involved in such wrongdoing need to be accountable for this. They ate out Metropolitan Jonah because he was doing right things and tried to heal OCA currently deeply corrupted. I support to cease financial support, however - not parishes, but rather OCA structures. Pay directly for parish needs to avoid money transfer to the OCA administration.Flag
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Name: Irina Balan on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Irina Knyazev on Jul 13, 2012Comments: Metropolitan Jonah is the best thing that happened to Orthodox Church in America in many years. This bishops' conspiracy against their Primate is non-canonical and outrageous. I am shocked that they are not afraid of doing such a thing, just shocked. Aren't they aware of the HIGHER authority?Flag
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Name: Vadim Knyazev on Jul 13, 2012Comments: The Canons of the Holy Apostles: Canon XXXIV. The bishops of every nation must acknowledge him who is first among them and account him as their head, and do nothing of consequence without his consent; but each may do those things only which concern his own parish, and the country places which belong to it. But neither let him (who is the first) do anything without the consent of all; for so there will be unanimity, and God will be glorified through the Lord in the Holy Spirit. The Canons of the Council of Chalcedon: Canon XVIII. The crime of conspiracy or banding together is utterly prohibited even by the secular law, and much more ought it to be forbidden in the Church of God. Therefore, if any, whether clergymen or monks, should be detected conspiring or banding together, or hatching plots against their bishops or fellow-clergy, they shall by all means be deposed from their own rank. The Canons of the Council in Trullo: Canon XXXIV In view of the fact that the sacerdotal Canon clearly states that as the crime of conspiracy or of faction is utterly forbidden even by civil laws, it is much more fitting still that this be prohibited from occurring in the Church of God, we too are sedulous to insist that if any Clergymen or Monks be found either conspiring together or engaging in factional intrigues or hatching plots against Bishops or fellow Clergymen, they shall forfeit their own rank altogether.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Ken Miller on Jul 13, 2012Comments: 3. I call for the immediate resignation of ALL Holy Synod Bishops, and for the purging of the "Lavender Mafia" from OCA leadership that so despises traditional Orthodoxy and that has mounted such a hateful campaign to oust Jonah over the past few years.Flag
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Name: Oleksandr Kovalov on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Viktoria Shalaginova on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Geo Michalopulos on Jul 13, 2012Comments: ANAXIOI!Flag
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Name: Joel Kalvesmaki on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Elizabeth Bozhich on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Alexander Kuzin on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Tikhon Thompson on Jul 13, 2012Comments: Metropolitan Jonah has made every attempt to break the OCA's self imposed shell and intergrate it back into world Orthodoxy and to keep it from the following the dying pseudo-ethnic North East ghetto path it was on. He has been especially good in bridging the divide with ROCOR with which much of the OCA has common roots and bonds.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Tim on Jul 13, 2012Comments: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert. A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? -- YeatsFlag
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Name: Natalia Antonov on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Sophia Kellachow on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Seraphim Winslow on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Irene Burwell on Jul 13, 2012Comments: The "voluntary" resignation of the Metropolitan defies reason. Elected to lead the church in the wake of corruption allegations, +Jonah has shown nothing but utmost reverence to the Orthodox Christian tradition, with thoughtful sermons and an especially caring attitude towards parishioners. He has given a new face to the OCA, while being firmly committed to the roots of Orthodox Christianity. It is clear from the events I have witnessed at the Cathedral, as well as from the limited information that can be found online (any any official information from the OCA is gravely incomplete), that for +Jonah, the move to head the OCA was not planned nor easy. Now that he has been "voluntarily" fired by the Holy Synod for no clear or legitimate reason, what is to become of the OCA leadership? How long will the pattern continue? And what is to become of Metropolitan and his family? For many parishioners, including myself, the direction of the OCA, as exemplified by its leadership is uncertain, and not in line with the mission of true Orthodoxy. It is out of our love and respect for the OCA that myself and others humbly insist that the motivation behind the firing of yet another Metropolitan be made clear, as well as the circumstances surrounding the decision.Flag
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Name: Rev.Boris Slootsky on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Victor Ovchinnikov on Jul 13, 2012Comments: Ordinarily, I an not one to make waves. It is not within the Orthodox Christian tradition, which instead teaches humility and submission to religious authority. However the secrecy and the apparent arbitrariness of the OCA leadership reminds us of what caused splits and schisms within Christianity in the past. This must not happen in the OCA. In light of the recent events, I regret to say that the decisions of the OCA leadership appear highly questionable.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Jon Andrew Greig on Jul 14, 2012Comments: As with the other backers of this petition, I ask that the sufficient reasons for the Metropolitan's removal be revealed for the good of the Church and the faith. Otherwise we are being given a bad witness of Christianity and threaten the souls and salvation of the faithful.Flag
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Name: Aleksei Shokun on Jul 14, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Ted Arrington on Jul 14, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Svetlana Watanabe on Jul 14, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 14, 2012Comments: Horrible what has happened!Flag
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Dmytro Chaikovskyi on Jul 14, 2012
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