By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. In a recent and unexpected announcement, Father Peter Heers of Orthodox Ethos announced that he was received into the New Calendarist Romanian Patriarchate’s American Metropolis under their bishop, Metropolitan Nicolae. According to this announcement from Orthodox Ethos, Father Peter will be assigned to Protection of the Mother of God Orthodox Christian Church in Houston, Texas [1]. This unexpected announcement is interesting in that this was not the original...

By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. On January 30th, 2026, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOARCH), in cooperation with the World Council of Churches, once again participated in a blasphemous public display of heresy by conducting a joint ecumenical prayer service inside Holy Trinity Cathedral in New York. This event was led by the Arch-Heresiarch Elpidophoros, head of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. As is evident from their own publicly posted YouTube video, the service lasted...

Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. In the life of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia prior to the false union of 2007, there were always clearly defined criteria that had to be met before ROCOR would ever consider any form of union with the Moscow Patriarchate. In a primary-source document from the ROCOR–MP milieu, the Sergianist priest George Lardas, writing in defense of reconciliation, enumerates many of the conditions that historic ROCOR had long required before even preliminary...