Bishop Kirykos Kontogiannis has accused others of being "Old Calendarist Ecumenists" and used this accusation to justify severing communion and causing schisms. However, Bishop Kirykos' own actions show that he himself engages in the behaviors of an "Old Calendarist Ecumenist" as he defines them. He received the Romanian Victorite hierarchy into communion without re-consecration or absolution, and he glorified Saint John the Romanian who was ordained by the Jerusalem Patriarchate, which Bishop Kirykos believes lost grace. Bishop Kirykos' contradictory positions and actions reveal that his accusations and schisms were based on personal motives rather

1. The Matthewite Bishop Kirykos Kontogiannis
Is Himself An “Old Calendarist Ecumenist”
Bp. Kirykos Kontogiannis is responsible for the Matthewites separating
from communion with the ROCOR in 1976 on the charge of “old calendarist
ecumenism.” He is also the one who warred against the theological dialogue
between the Matthewites and the Kiousis Synod from 1985 to 2005, again on
the charge of “Old Calendarist Ecumenism.” Bp. Kirykos also even severed
communion with the holy Archbishop Andrew (Anestis) of Athens and the
remaining Matthewite hierarchs, and created his own personal schism (the
“Kirykite” faction), again on the charge that all other Matthewite hierarchs
had supposedly fallen into “Old Calendarist Ecumenism.” But now it has
been proven that this charge has always been false, because Bp. Kirykos is
HIMSELF exactly what he would describe an “Old Calendarist Ecumenist.”
Thus it becomes apparent that Bp. Kirykos’ reasons for schism were entirely
personal, in order to promote his egotistic self‐esteem, and also as a rage of
anger that he did not get elected as Archbishop of Athens instead of Nicholas.
There are many proofs that Bp. Kirykos is an Old Calendarist
Ecumenist. The main proof is the fact he united with the Romanian Victorite
hierarchy, which traces its apostolic succession from Bp. Victor Leu (+1980)
who was consecrated in 1949 by three ROCOR hierarchs, whereas Bp. Kirykos
believes that the ROCOR was void of grace from 1924 onwards, and claims
that anyone who believes the ROCOR had grace during this time is an “Old
Calendarist Ecumenist.” Bp. Kirykos received the Romanian hierarchy into
communion without re‐consecrating them, without reading a cheirothesia or
prayer of absolution, but by a simple recognition! This very act is a clear sign
of “Old Calendarist Ecumenism” as Bp. Kirykos himself would describe it.
Another proof of Bp. Kirykos’s “Old Calendarist Ecumenism” is his
recent official glorification of St. John the Romanian of Hozeva, a priest of the
Jerusalem Patriarchate, who was ordained in 1947 by a bishop of the
Jerusalem Patriarchate, and never severed communion with the Jerusalem
Patriarchate. According to Bp. Kirykos’ own definition, St. John the Romanian
was most definitely an “Old Calendarist Ecumenist.” Yet, by glorifying him
and consecrating a chapel in his honour, Bp. Kirykos has proven himself to
also be an “Old Calendarist Ecumenist,” thereby negating all the reasons for
the schisms he has caused in the past. This therefore proves that Bp. Kirykos’
schism (the “Kirykites”) is nothing more than an egotistic parasynagogue.
And it cannot be said that Bp. Kirykos was unaware that St. John the
Romanian was ordained and belonged to the Jerusalem Patriarchate, because

2. no sound hierarch glorifies a Saint without first reading the Saint’s life! And a
copy of St. John the Romanian’s life was found in Bp. Kirykos’ own archive, in
one of his recent folders which contained the decision of his Synod to glorify
St. John the Romanian. In that book, it is clearly written in Greek that “The
Patriarch of Jerusalem approved the ordination and on the 13th of May, 1947, the
feastday of St. Glycheria, he was ordained as a hierodeacon by Bishop Irenarchus. On
the 14th of September of the same year, he was ordained as a hieromonk and abbot of
the Romanian Church in Jordan. His ordination took place in the Church of the All‐
holy Sepulchre.” A scan of the section follows:
Below are photographs of Bp. Kirykos’ glorification of St. John the Romanian:

5.
Bp. Kirykos believes that the Jerusalem Patriarchate lost grace in 1924,
yet at the same time he believes grace was somehow “provided” for the
ordination of St. John the Romanian in 1947, and that the latter therefore
performed valid mysteries and belonged to the True Church, despite having
been a member of the Jerusalem Patriarchate until his very repose! In other
words, grace doesn’t exist anywhere until Bp. Kirykos fancies to “grant” it a
whole 61 years later! This theory that the Holy Spirit sanctifies only
“wherever Kirykos wants” is NOT an example of Orthodox ecclesiology. On
the contrary, it is a satanic, egotistic blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. It is
not an Ecclesiology, but rather a “Kirykology.” It is an ecclesiological heresy
that is not based on the Holy Fathers, but rather on the egotistic whims of a
deluded man, Mr. Kirykos Kontogiannis, who for 30 years has prevented the
unity of the Genuine Orthodox Christians, and has even caused several
schisms (including his current Kirykite schismato‐heretical parasynagogue),
supposedly due to saving the Church from “Old Calendarist Ecumenism,”
whereas in actual fact among “Old Calendarist Ecumenists” is none other
than Bp. Kirykos himself!
May God enlighten him to repent, and for his followers to denounce
his treacherous schism and work towards the unity of the G.O.C.