RESTORE THE MAN OF GOD NOW!!!... TO HIS METROPOLIS!!!
CONFESSION IN FAVOR OF FAITH AND THE HOMELAND
SHAME ON US AND DISGRACE TO US!!!
THE MOST ORTHODOX METROPOLITAN OF PAPHOS TYCHIKOS, DEPOSED IN AN ANTI-ECCLESIASTICAL AND ANTI-ORTHODOX MANNER
AXIOS!!!
RELATED TO THE DEPOSITION OF SAINT TYCHIKOS OF PAPHOS
HERETICS DO NOT HAVE BAPTISM BECAUSE IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SACRAMENT OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH.
ANOINTING A HERETIC IS UNCANONICAL BECAUSE IT CONFLICTS WITH THE SACRED TRADITION OF OUR CHURCH, BECAUSE YES, THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY TRINITY BUT BY HERETICS WHO, BASED ON THE HOLY FATHERS OF THE FAITH, HAVE NEITHER PRIESTHOOD NOR SACRAMENTS, THEREFORE BAPTISM IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY TRINITY BY HERETICS IS INVALID.
FOR THESE HERETICS, THEN... WHAT DID WE DO?.. WE DEPOSED OUR ORTHODOX HIERARCH, SO AS NOT TO SPOIL THE INFECTIOUS SOUP OF THE ECUMENICAL PAN-HERESY.
OIKONOMIA IN THIS MATTER IS ALWAYS ABUSIVE AND OUTSIDE SACRED TRADITION, IT CONCERNS SPECIFIC AND ISOLATED HISTORICAL CASES, UNDER SPECIAL CONDITIONS, BUT STILL DOES NOT NEGATE THE ESSENCE, ALL THAT THE LORD AND THE HOLY APOSTLES DELIVERED TO US AND THE HOLY AND GOD-BEARING FATHERS OF THE FAITH CLARIFIED WITH ABSOLUTE CLARITY, LEAVING NO ROOM WHATSOEVER FOR MISINTERPRETATION OR ERRONEOUS PERCEPTION OR ACTION. AND FURTHERMORE, "OIKONOMIA" NEVER CONSTITUTES A RULE OR CUSTOM IN THE HOLY CHURCH.
FURTHERMORE...
MIXED MARRIAGES ARE BOTH UNCANONICAL AND INVALID AND DO NOT CONSTITUTE A HOLY SACRAMENT AND SACRAMENTAL COMMUNION WITHIN THE BOSOM OF THE MOTHER CHURCH, THEY ARE NOT FORGIVEN, NOR JUSTIFIED OR LEGITIMIZED BY THE RELEVANT "PRAYER" IN THE EUCHOLOGION.
MARRIAGE IS A SACRAMENT IN THE HOLY CHURCH... AND ALL THE HOLY SACRAMENTS OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH ARE PERFORMED WITH VALIDITY AND CANONICITY EXCLUSIVELY AND ONLY FOR ITS MEMBERS, THAT IS, ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS.
NO HERETIC, HETERODOX, NON-ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN IS ALLOWED FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER TO PARTICIPATE IN AND RECEIVE THE HOLY SACRAMENTS BASED ON THE APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONS, THE CANONS, AND THE DECISIONS OF THE HOLY SEVEN ECUMENICAL COUNCILS.
THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT SACRAMENTALLY BLESS NON-ORTHODOX, BECAUSE HOLY SACRAMENTS EXIST ONLY IN THE ONE HOLY CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC, EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH SO CALLED.
OF COURSE, THE HOLY SPIRIT BLOWS WHERE IT WILLS AND AS IT WILLS AND DECIDES TO ACT... BUT SACRAMENTALLY IT ACTS ONLY WITHIN THE BOSOM OF THE MOTHER CHURCH... WITH THE ABSOLUTE UNANIMOUS AND CONCORDANT OPINION OF ALL THE HOLY FATHERS OF THE FAITH.
AND THIS SIMPLY AND PRACTICALLY MEANS THAT NO NON-ORTHODOX CAN STAND AND PARTICIPATE IN ANY HOLY SACRAMENT OF OUR CHURCH EXCEPT THE INTRODUCTORY ONE, WHICH IS HOLY BAPTISM, PROVIDED THAT THEY ABSOLUTELY FREELY AND VOLUNTARILY DESIRE TO ENTER THE BOSOM OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, AFTER HAVING BEEN SUFFICIENTLY CATECHIZED AND IT HAS BEEN VERIFIED-CERTIFIED THAT THEIR CONSCIOUS, UNFORCED, AND ABSOLUTELY FREE APPROACH TO HOLY ORTHODOXY... FROM THEN ON, AS AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN AND PROVIDED THERE IS NO SPIRITUAL IMPEDIMENT, THEY CAN PARTICIPATE AND SHARE IN ALL THE HOLY SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH CANONICALLY.
THEREFORE... NOW... AT THIS POINT... HARD QUESTIONS ARISE...
WAS SAINT TYCHIKOS OF PAPHOS TARGETED BY THE NEW AGE FOR THE PURITY OF HIS ORTHODOX FAITH AND HIS ORTHODOX MINDSET... AND DID HE NOW CONSTITUTE A "THORN" IN THE ECUMENIST KICKS?
OF COURSE, ALL THE ABOVE CONCERN ONLY THOSE WHO CHOOSE THE TRUTH BASED ON THEIR CHRISTIAN OR EVEN PRIESTLY CONSCIENCE... FOR ALL OTHERS, INDIFFERENT...
BECAUSE MANY WILL RUSH FOOLISHLY AS OBJECTORS OR CONTRADICTORS... STUDY FIRST, WHEN THE LORD WAS BAPTIZING WITH HIS DISCIPLES, COMMANDING IN THIS WAY THE ABSOLUTE CANONICITY, NECESSITY, AND CORRECTNESS OF HOLY BAPTISM...
SO WHAT WOULD WE SAY... THAT SAINT TYCHIKOS OF PAPHOS REFUSED TO RECEIVE THE HONORABLE HEAD OF SAINT APOSTLE PAUL???...
ALAS... AWAY WITH THE BLASPHEMY!!!... BUT AS ONE HAVING ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAPAL "WEASEL"... WHICH UNDER THE PRETEXT OF HOLINESS AND PIETY-REVERENCE... INSULTS BOTH THESE VIRTUES... TAKING MORE AND MORE SPACE AT THE EXPENSE OF ORTHODOXY... HE REFUSED NOT THE HONOR TO THE HOLY HEAD... BUT THE UNCANONICAL AND ANTI-ORTHODOX CONSENT AND PARTICIPATION IN THE RELATED HERETICAL PAPAL FIESTA... ECCLESIASTICAL COMMUNION AND CO-PRAYER WITH THE HERETICAL PAPO-LATINS... CONDEMNED BY THE EIGHTH AND NINTH SYNOD OF CONSTANTINOPLE... AND WHO CONSTANTLY EXERCISE AGAINST ORTHODOXY AND IN FAVOR OF ECUMENISM... ALL THE RELATED UNLAWFUL AND UNGODLY MEANS... SINCE FOR THEM... THE END "SANCTIFIES"...
BUT WE KNOW FROM THE SAINTS OF THE FAITH THAT SIN IS NOT SANCTIFIED, AS WE ALSO KNOW THE HORRIFIC CANONS OF THE HOLY APOSTLES AND THE HOLY ECUMENICAL COUNCILS AGAINST ANY ECCLESIASTICAL COMMUNION WITH HERETICS!!!
SAINT TYCHIKOS OF PAPHOS FOLLOWED SAINT AIGIALEIAS... BOTH WERE CAST OUT, WHY? BECAUSE THEY BECAME HONORABLE CONFESSORS AND WITNESSES OF THE TRUTH... AGAINST THIS ANTICHRIST LAWLESS AND CORRUPT AGE...
FROM THE WEST... MANY EVILS COME...
WE HAVE... FIRST, THE SLANDER AND DEFAMATION... THE UNJUST AND ARBITRARY REMOVAL OF A PURELY ORTHODOX HIERARCH, ARCHBISHOP OF AMERICA DEMETRIOS... SO THAT THE CURRENT ONE COULD TAKE OVER THE ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICA, WHOSE TREE WE RECOGNIZED FROM ITS FRUITS... FRUITS OF NEW ORDER ARBITRARY AND HERETICAL...
WE HAVE EVEN A LITTLE EARLIER THE CRUEL PERSECUTION AND ABDUCTION OF THE BLESSED (SAINT)... EPHRAIM OF ARIZONA... FROM THE SAME BROADER WESTERN ENVIRONMENT...
(THE GREEK-AMERICAN SECULAR "LOBBY" AND ITS PARTNERS)...
AND NOW... WE HAVE... A NEW PROFESSOR FROM AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, WHO WANTED TO BRING THE CHURCH DOWN TO HIS LEVEL, "TAKING THE COFIN MEASURES"... OF SAINT TYCHIKOS OF PAPHOS AND MOBILIZING IN A SECULAR WAY AND PERCEPTION EVERY COMPETENT AND INCOMPETENT... TO ACHIEVE HIS UNLAWFUL PURPOSE... THAT IS, TO HUMILIATE THE VENERABLE HIERARCH... WHO DID NOT CONSENT TO HIS UNCANONICAL DEMANDS... (THE PROFESSOR WAS OFFENDED...) THE MINDLESS ARROGANT AND ALOFT, WITHOUT HOLY AND SACRED, AND ABSOLUTELY NAKED OF DIVINE FEAR AND SENSITIVITY...
AND FOR ALL THESE WORLDLY SECULARIZERS... FOR THE SECULAR FEAR AND NOT THE DIVINE, FOR THE FEAR OF THE "POWERFUL" OF THIS EARTH AND NOT OF THE "POWERFUL" OF HEAVEN... WE DEPOSED THE HOLY HIERARCH...
SOMEONE WROTE... IT IS NOT DEPOSITION... YES! IT IS NOT DEPOSITION FROM THE ARCHIEPISCOPAL OFFICE... BUT IT IS DEPOSITION FROM THE METROPOLIS, SINCE NOW SAINT TYCHIKOS OF PAPHOS HAS NEITHER HIS DIOCESE NOR ANOTHER DIOCESE...
CANONICALLY AND GRAMMATICALLY SPEAKING... WHAT DOES DEPOSE MEAN?... I CUT OFF... I PRUNE... THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS... AND SAINT TYCHIKOS OF PAPHOS... WAS CUT OFF... PRUNED FROM HIS DIOCESE... WITH A TRIAL... UNJUST... !!!
MEN... CONDEMNED... GOD... ACQUITTED... NOT ONLY ACQUITTED BUT WILL ALSO RESTORE HIM TRIUMPHANTLY... TO THE SHAME OF THIS ABOMINABLE ANTICHRIST AND LAWLESS AGE AND TO THE GLORY OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH...
ONCE THEY IMPRISONED SAINT NICHOLAS FOR A SLAP HE RIGHTLY GAVE... AND GOD HIMSELF AND THE ALL-HOLY MOTHER WENT AND RESTORED HIM...
AND NOW THEY WILL NOT INTERVENE AGAIN(? I ASK) FOR THEIR SON TYCHIKOS AND ESPECIALLY... FOR THE UNJUST "SLAP" HE RECEIVED... BY THE HANDS OF LAWLESS ONES???...
SUCH A THING IS BEYOND CERTAIN!!!
ONE MUST OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN... SAID SAINT APOSTLE PETER... BUT THESE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY... NEW AGE AND NEW ORDER ARE NOT EVEN FINE... LETTERS...
THE HAND THAT STRUCK THE CHURCH... WITHERED... SAID THE BLESSED CHRISTODOULOS... AND CHURCH OF COURSE IS... HOLY ORTHODOXY...
AND SINCE MANY HANDS ARE ABOUT TO WITHER... HASTEN THEN HOLY FATHERS AND BROTHERS TO RESTORE THE INNOCENT HIERARCH...
IT IS THEREFORE IMPERATIVE FOR THE CLERGY AND THE PEOPLE TO DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RESTORATION OF THE ORTHODOX HIERARCH...
FOR THE INSULTERS AND SLANDERERS OF TYCHIKOS AND THOSE WHO WANT THE CHURCH TO BE IN THEIR "LOGICAL" WORLDLY AND SECULAR MEASURES... I CHOOSE... THAT THEY ACT LIKE THOSE LAWLESS ONES WHO LAID AND IMPOSED THEIR FILTHY AND ABOMINABLE HANDS ON THE LORD... IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE...
LET US NOT FORGET THEN THAT ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT WE WILL ALL FIND OURSELVES NAKED AND SHIVERING BEFORE THE JUDGE LORD AND GOD AND SAVIOR OUR JESUS CHRIST...
THEN NEITHER GLOBALIZATION NOR ECUMENISM NOR "HIGH" CONNECTIONS WILL SAVE US, BUT ONLY THE PURE CHRISTIAN OR EVEN PRIESTLY CONSCIENCE...
IN CONFIRMATION OF ALL THE ABOVE... AND SOME... MANY...
READ OR LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING... BUT... WITH GREAT ATTENTION...
https://analogion.gr/logos/omologia/383-metallhnos-omologia
SOME OR EVEN MANY ANTICHRIST HERETICAL ANNES AND CAIAPHAS...
BLASPHEME THE FAITH AND WORK ONLY NOW TOWARDS ITS DECONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION...
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CONFESSION OF METROPOLITAN (FORMER) OF PAPHOS TYCHIKOS
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CONFESSION OF METROPOLITAN (FORMER) OF PAPHOS TYCHIKOS
June 18, 2025
Because throughout the previous period up to now, various unsubstantiated claims are circulating about my alleged avoidance to submit a Confession of Faith, or about an alleged deviation in my course, I deem it appropriate to clarify the following to restore the truth.
1. I considered the drafting of the Confession of Faith unnecessary from the beginning, as I align with what I confessed on the day of my ordination, I have not ceased to align and will not cease, and clearly I have not adhered to any error or heresy (far from it!), so as to submit a new confession for alleged reintegration into the Orthodox Church. From my youth, I live and breathe within the Church, with unshakable faith in the Triadic God, in the all-venerable Person of our Lord Jesus Christ and His All-Holy Mother, faith based on Holy Scripture, the Sacred Tradition of the Orthodox Church, the Holy Canons, and the teaching of our Holy Fathers. Therefore, in accordance with the prerequisites of these, I certainly follow, respect, and obey the decisions of the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus.
2. After much prayer and thought, I decided to submit the appeal to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in accordance with the Statutory Charter, as I consider the accusations unsubstantiated and false, but especially the procedure that was (not) followed, renders the decision uncanonical and unconstitutional. The entire development tramples on every notion of respect for the Archiepiscopal Office, but also for fundamental human rights. Of course, I could resort to secular courts. However, following the exhortation of Apostle Paul (1 Cor. 6:1), I chose to resolve the issues within our Church, initially addressing the Ecumenical Patriarchate, trusting that such an unjust procedure and decision cannot be accepted.
3. For reasons of avoiding scandal regarding possible disobedience to the Holy Synod, and to refute every slander against me about alleged walling-off or about a person who encourages and covers up laypeople or clergy to cease the commemoration of their Bishops, I prepared a Confession of Faith before the final decision to submit the appeal, as it was requested in the synodal communiqué of May 22. I always intended to submit it, as I had informed the Beatitude Archbishop of Cyprus H.H. Georgios in our meeting on Friday, May 30.
4. I declare again and repeatedly, explicitly and categorically, that all the accusations do not hold but collapse like a house of cards, and specifically for the accusation of walling-off that is much discussed, indicatively I will mention five cases:
a) August 2023: I placed in suspension a priest of the Metropolis of Paphos who proceeded to walling-off, and finally the competent ecclesiastical court of the Holy Synod proceeded to his defrocking.
b) February 13, 2024: As Metropolitan of Paphos, I disseminated the announcement of the Holy Synod and drew attention to the "Athonite elder Savvas Lavriotis".
c) May 23, 2024: I issued an announcement, after communication with the Holy Monastery of Xanthi, about the self-proclaimed "elder Anna", who was touring the metropolis of Paphos without canonical permission and giving talks in homes.
d) May 10, 2025: I informed in writing the priests of the Metropolis of Paphos about archimandrites who do not have blessing to officiate, as they do not belong to any local Church and do not recognize any orthodox bishop.
e) Regarding the recent "Thessaloniki case", the multi-child priest with origin from Agia Marina Paphos was ordained to serve permanently the Metropolis of Paphos. He was appointed to a large community as parish priest for a long period and always commemorated my name as metropolitan in the holy services he performed in Paphos. For the completion of a postgraduate program, he was granted a license for free officiating, as I also received during my studies in London from the then Metropolitan of Paphos and current Beatitude H.H. Georgios. It was not possible for me to have responsibility or knowledge of his actions outside the boundaries of my Metropolis.
5. Although due to the appeal we are all now awaiting developments in the Ecumenical Patriarchate, however, I submit to the Holy Synod and make public the Confession of Faith that was requested of me. For this reason, I call on the Beatitude, the Synodal Hierarchs, and the faithful People of God, regarding my case, not to rush ahead and to spend the time with prayer and calm.
Note: Because I no longer have access to the correspondence concerning me that is sent to the Holy Metropolis of Paphos, those who wish to communicate with me, please do so exclusively via the email address: mitr.tychikos@outlook.com.
June 18, 2025
+ the (former) of Paphos Tychikos
Paphos, 18.06.2025
CONFESSION OF FAITH
I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages; Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten, not made, of one essence with the Father, through whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man. He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried. And rose on the third day according to the Scriptures. And ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. And he will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, whose kingdom will have no end. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father, who together with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who spoke through the prophets. In one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come. Amen.
In addition to these, I accept and receive the holy seven Ecumenical Councils and the Local ones, which they accepted and ratified for the preservation of the orthodox doctrines of the Church assembled. I confess all the definitions of the true faith set forth by them, as guided by the illuminating grace of the All-Holy Spirit, and the Holy Canons, which those blessed ones composed and delivered to the Church according to the apostolic traditions and the meaning of the evangelical divine teaching for the adornment of the Holy Church of Christ and the good order of morals, I embrace and will direct according to them the ministry allotted to me by divine will and according to them I will continue teaching the chosen people of the Lord.
Moreover, I confess foremost to preserve the unity of the faith in the bond of peace, all that the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of the Orthodox professes and dogmatizes, these I also profess and believe, adding nothing, subtracting nothing, changing nothing neither of the dogmas nor of the traditions, but adhering to these and teaching and preaching them with fear of God and good conscience, and all that it condemns as heterodoxies and rejects, these I also reject and cast away forever. (1)
(1) Up to here from the Archieraticon, (ed.) Apostolic Diakonia of the Church of Greece, Athens 1999, pp. 110-112.
I confess that I remain immovable within the safe walls of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, as these were defined and diachronically built by the God-bearing Fathers of the Orthodox Church, having full knowledge that schism constitutes the greatest evil in the Church, which neither the blood of martyrdom of the schismatic or of the one leading others to schism can heal.
Likewise, I have full knowledge that, in accordance with both the spirit of the 31st Apostolic Canon, which received ecumenical validity, and the 15th Canon of the First-Second holy Synod in Constantinople (year of salvation 861) under Saint and Great Photios, which is included in the corpus canonum of our Orthodox Church, summarizes the previous Canons 13 and 14, "The provisions concerning presbyters and bishops and metropolitans apply even more to patriarchs. So that, if any presbyter or bishop or metropolitan dares to withdraw from communion with his own patriarch and does not mention his name, as defined and ordained, in the divine mystagogy, but before a synodal manifestation and complete condemnation of him makes a schism, the holy synod has decreed that he be completely alien to all priesthood, if only he is convicted of this transgression. And these have been sealed and defined concerning those who under pretext of certain crimes withdraw from their own presidents and create schism and disrupt the unity of the Church. For those who on account of some heresy condemned by holy Synods or Fathers separate themselves from communion with their president, that is, because he publicly preaches heresy and with bare head teaches it in the church, such persons not only are not subject to canonical censure for walling themselves off from communion with the so-called bishop before synodal clarification, but also shall be deemed worthy of the honor appropriate to the orthodox. For they have condemned not bishops, but pseudo-bishops and pseudo-teachers, and they have not cut the unity of the church with schism, but have endeavored to deliver the church from schisms and divisions."
I have knowledge that this canon gives the right to a cleric or bishop (which it defines as praiseworthy walling-off), to cease the commemoration of his ecclesiastical authority (however not to commemorate another bishop or ecclesiastical authority), as long as his own bishop preaches publicly and with bare head in church a heresy condemned by the holy Synods or by the Holy Fathers. The exercise of this right before synodal judgment about a bishop preaching heresy presupposes discernment and divine illumination. Insofar as, if this is done under unbridled zealotry, and without the prerequisites provided by the above holy Canons existing, it is possible to lead to schism, which, as easily as it is created, is as difficult to cease.
I make known therefore that I never examined by myself the possibility of ceasing commemoration, and for this reason I co-celebrated until now with the Archbishop of Cyprus, as well as the other Synodal Hierarchs, and I always commemorated the name of the Beatitude Archbishop of Cyprus in the holy Services and Divine Liturgies, which I performed. Furthermore, I never covered up any walled-off person, nor encouraged a cleric or layperson to apply walling-off.
I confess that I condemn ecclesiastically and irrevocably as schismatics, according to the divine and holy Canons, those who under the pretext of walling-off, possessed by a spirit of love of power and "under pretext of certain crimes of their own superior" or "for ecclesiastical matters that are curable", according to the God-illumined Great Basil, separate themselves from the common nourisher and savior Orthodox Church in the East of all of us. Equally I condemn all those anathematized by the Church synodically or by the unanimous opinion of the divine Fathers through the ages as heretics; "a heretic is and is subject to the laws against heretics whoever deviates even a little from the Orthodox Faith", according to the orthodox ecclesiology imprinted in Photios' Nomocanon.
I confess that I will obey willingly, in accordance with the guidance and provisions of the divinely inspired Dogmas and Canons of our Catholic Holy Orthodox Church, to the decisions of the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus.
Sealing all the above and signing,
With brotherly love and respect in Christ
+ the (former) of Paphos Tychikos
Source: OrthodoxiaNewsAgency, 22/6/2025 (accessed 22/6/2025)
Article from "Aktines"
September 18, 2025
The Persecution of a Metropolitan and the Devaluation of Ecclesiastical Justice
"A monument of arbitrariness" the Synod's decision against Metropolitan of Paphos Tychikos
– Article by Dr. of Canon Law Eric Sergios
As a "monument" of arbitrariness, abuse of power, violation of the Holy Canons and every principle of law, the decision of the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus for the "deposition" of Metropolitan of Paphos Tychikos will remain in history.
Reviewing the relevant sources, researchers will reasonably wonder about the unprecedented and unprecedented ecclesiastical crime. The highest Ecclesiastical Authority of Cyprus, which has the exclusive responsibility to ensure the observance, correct interpretation and application of the Statutory Charter, bypassed the institutionalized procedures provided by it and the Holy Canons and condemned without elementary evidence a member of it based on a fabricated indictment that has no canonical support.
It decided without hesitation the persecution of a Metropolitan from his throne, indifferent to the pastoral needs of the people who trusted him as their spiritual father and guide.
It acted with unprecedented severity towards one of its members, while at the same time remaining apathetic and tolerant of the arbitrary actions of the Locum Tenens of the Throne who proceeds to administrative acts in violation of the Statutory Charter and who has forbidden Metropolitan Tychikos to perform Divine Liturgies in his metropolitan district without ever having been placed in suspension by the Holy Synod.
And while all this is happening, silence covers everything! Let the truth be persecuted, let legality and justice be violated, let the intelligence of the faithful be underestimated. The guilt of those responsible arises not only from the prevailing silence and the fear to speak the truth, but also from their effort to justify their decision and convince that they acted correctly.
Even the platform of the conference organized by the Holy Archdiocese of Cyprus last June in honor of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council was used by its organizers to indicate to the clergy and people of the archdiocesan district that they should feel grateful for the decision of the Holy Synod.
The best way to honor the Holy Fathers is not organizing conferences but keeping and applying their decisions!
Never before has any political or ecclesiastical authority in this place dared to challenge or bypass the institutionalized procedures in force in the Church to impose its will arbitrarily.
We refer briefly to four cases that stood out due to their criticality and importance for the Church.
During the period of the so-called Archiepiscopal Issue (1900-1909), even the English tyrants had respected the procedures followed by the Church, when they imposed a political law to restore order, as there was no Statutory Charter in force then. This law that provided for the filling of the archiepiscopal throne was drafted based on the canonical opinion of a senior cleric, Meletios Metaxakis, and the elections had been announced based on an encyclical of the Holy Synod.
In 1973, in the most painful ecclesiastical crisis this place has ever known, due to the tragic events that followed, Metropolitans of Paphos Gennadios, Kition Anthimos, and Kyrenia Kyprianos defrocked Archbishop Makarios III, on the grounds that his involvement in political affairs was incompatible with his archiepiscopal status. The three Metropolitans applied article 14 of the then Statutory Charter in force, which allowed the Holy Synod, which then consisted of 4 members, to impose the specific penalty, provided there was a unanimous decision among the three of them. It should be noted that with this specific provision, the Holy Canons were violated, which indicate that the accused Hierarch is tried by a Synodal Court consisting of at least 12 Hierarchs. Reacting, Archbishop Makarios III applied his right acquired from the Holy Canons, as President of the Holy Synod, to request the assistance of the four Orthodox Patriarchs of the East and the Church of Greece. Responding to his request, they sent representatives through whom a Greater and Extraordinary Synod was formed that met the required number needed to proceed to the defrocking of the three Metropolitans, judging their decision as uncanonical.
In 2000, when the Greater and Extraordinary Synod acquitted triumphantly Metropolitan of Limassol Athanasios from the accusations of moral deviations and revealed the plot woven against him - with instigators members of the Holy Synod and the assistance of false witnesses - it was considered a victory of the synodal system and the Holy Canons without the application of which justice would never have been served and the truth would never have been restored.
Regarding the way the late Archbishop Chrysostomos II (2006-2022) ascended to the throne, much has been said and written. Despite what happened behind the scenes and came to light (holy agreements, influencing electors, etc.), the procedure was legal and everything was done in compliance with the relevant provisions of the then Statutory Charter of 1979.
The above cases indicate to us the importance of the correct interpretation and application of the Holy Canons and the Statutory Charter for maintaining the unity of the faithful and the smooth functioning of the Church as a Theanthropic Organism in the world. On the contrary, every legal injustice, when committed by persons who must inspire respect, irreparably damages the prestige of the decisions of the Holy Synod and the credibility of its members (at least those who supported for their own reasons each the "deposition" of the Metropolitan of Paphos). Even if there were reasonable grounds for a member of the Synod to be tried, this should be done within the framework defined by the Statutory Charter. The bypassing of it alone and the way the decision was made creates even in the most well-intentioned the impression that it is a methodical effort that serves alien purposes and interests and in no case the interest of the Church and especially of the faithful of the metropolitan district of Paphos.
eeod.gr
October 19, 2025
Oh the paradoxical miracle: When the Phanar recognizes the error but condemns the just: case of Tychikos!
Perhaps then yesterday's day will indeed remain in history, not as a day of wisdom, but as a day of ecclesiastical self-censorship. Photo: Nearchos Panagi
When the Phanar recognizes the error but condemns the just: case of Tychikos.
The mother church decided the most oxymoronic of the last 2000 years. Literally:
"During the examination of the file of the matter, omissions were found during the trial of the case of Metropolitan Tychikos in the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus", but....
It was finally recommended to the former Metropolitan of Paphos to obey the decisions of the Holy Synod of his Church and this for his own spiritual benefit and for the peace and unity of the Church.
It is certain that yesterday will be a pivotal point of reference... for the next millennia for the Orthodox church. I don't know if it will be celebrated festively or if it will be a day of fasting (mourning) but it certainly won't be forgotten. Laughter or tears it will surely bring though.
Perhaps then yesterday's day will remain in history — not as a day of wisdom, but as a day of ecclesiastical self-censorship.
Yes, the indictment was laughable, with canonical omissions, but also with the sit Bishop in your boiled and obey the injustice you suffered for the good and peace in the church. The Phanar essentially recognizes festively the omissions in the deposition of Metropolitan Tychikos and the malfeasance, but ratifies the decision and calls on him to obey – a paradox that reveals the crack between canonicity and diplomacy. In simple words: the Patriarchate admits that the procedure was uncanonical, but asks the aggrieved to accept it for the sake of... humility.
If this is not an institutional contradiction, then what is? Since when is obedience used as a cover for injustice?
Since when does obedience serve as a pretext to legitimize an injustice?
How to speak of peace, when peace is built on the silence of the unjustly condemned?
The case of Tychikos, however, is not personal. It is a symptom of a deeper problem: the transformation of ecclesiastical institutions from guardians of the faith into balancing mechanisms.
The stance of the Phanar sends a dangerous message: that ecclesiastical unity can be saved even by disregarding canonicity.
Obedience is indeed a virtue – when addressed to Christ and His truth.
However, when it turns into a pretext to legitimize an injustice, then it ceases to be obedience, it becomes complicity.
However, within the decision and behind the words hide meanings that the common mind, Georgios and those around him Hierarchs understand very well and know.
On the one hand is the non-acquittal of Tychikos through the malfeasance, which the Patriarchate initially recognized as some of us know (what changed along the way? let the one who understands understand) but on the other hand it nails Georgios and his team.... You didn't do it well, your indictment suffers from omissions, but what can be done (so as not to have problems with the church of Cyprus) we ratify your decision.
Essentially it exposes irreparably Georgios and his actions. Of course Georgios is not satisfied with the wording, since he would like the Phanar's decision to say only: we ratify the decision of the church of Cyprus!! Commonly if the Phanar's wording was in slang it would say to him:
The way you messed it up, what can we do for you, stay with the decision you made. Of course the reason is that within the patriarchate there were fierce reactions from hierarchs to the injustice that was committed, even after the circumscribed and gasping "unanimous" decision. Essentially Tychikos and those who supported him were vindicated. Completely irregular the procedure, which the Phanar admitted. This paper of the Patriarchate is very strong however for a possible future appeal to civil courts. And I am sure that even if it falls to an atheist judge, he himself will learn the ecclesiastical: "I wonder and am amazed.. "!!
It would be an omission to mention that in a radio interview last week Georgios stated that: "as locum tenens of the Metr. of Paphos who is himself it would not be right to make binding decisions for Paphos (in relation to a temple in the garden they want to build) but to wait for the elections for the election of a new metropolitan!!!". That is, before the Phanar convened he knew the decision! That Tychikos would not be vindicated and would not be restored. Do we need to say anything else?
This is one side of the coin of the decision. The other is that the Phanar itself was irreparably exposed with its Pontius Pilate attitude. It recognizes the omissions and malfeasance but does nothing. I wash my hands... And since it is easier to beat the saddle than the donkey, it beats the saddle. I don't want to offend anyone with this proverb but I couldn't find a more apt one.
As for the Cypriot hierarchs who advocated this malfeasance stood behind the word of the Archbishop, not because they believed, but because they were comfortable. Each for his reasons. And I suspect for some why..
The stance of Metropolitan Tychikos hurt him in the human part but according to the Phanar's decision about malfeasance he was vindicated. He was vindicated not by the ratification of Georgios' decision as investigator, accuser and judge (not even in Islam do these happen) but by the proof of malfeasance. In 3 hours they deposed him and the Phanar took 3 months and more to see what to say. The pressure was suffocating..
Without a trace of exaggeration and knowing the humble and forgiving character of Metr. Tychikos his story resembles that of Saint Nektarios. His father the Patriarch of Alexandria expelled him without evidence, slandered him, defamed him to the Archbishop of Athens etc but in the end whom does God and history know? Saint Nektarios and not the anonymous Patriarch of Alexandria.
And from what I know our archbishop celebrates and accepts Saint Nektarios.
Does he realize however that he took the place of the then Patriarch of Alexandria 140 years later?
Good illumination
Nearchos Panagi
ARTICLE FROM.. "TAS THYRAS.."
Evil seriously harms health…
Posted on October 27, 2025
On the occasion of the admission of the former Paphos Tychikos to the hospital with a "serious health problem", something is revealed to us that the Fathers of our Church know and record in many texts or speeches of theirs and is much said even in the divinely inspired texts of services and supplications to our Lord, the Theotokos and our Saints.
"The body is sick, my soul is also sick". So we know this and we see it again every day in front of us, in fact now the very advanced science has arrived gasping to confirm it.
What? That the disease of the body, every disease, has a direct relationship (both in causing it and in the possibility of curing it) with the person's mental state: the serenity, the calm, the love he has or does not have, that he receives or not, in this course of his in the world. In fact, the more sensitive in character and introverted someone is, the symptoms from the disease of the soul are more intense, painful and visible on him, either as sorrow, or as some autoimmune, or as cancer or heart disease or brain damage.
What our Fathers did not tell us so clearly and no one usually discusses, is the indisputable fact that the evil of some people can cause serious diseases up to death in others and especially in the defenseless, in the more sensitive and helpless of this harsh world. So we see in the case of Tychikos, evil in all its depth unfolding luciferianly with the mantle of the official decision of the synod of the Church of Cyprus and the Ecumenical Patriarchate and this evil causing serious disease in a simple, humble, sensitive and traditional hierarch who dared to think in his ministry that he can follow the Holy Fathers in his province at least. He did not suspect that his spiritual "father-monster" would react with such egoism and evil that he would reach the point of even deposition from the apostolic and archiepiscopal office of a hierarch who otherwise did no evil.
For what real reason was he persecuted, someone will tell us? Those inhabiting Jerusalem know well and others are silent washing hands and fearing their own persecution, others do not understand and wonder, others weaker in faith are scandalized, others are amazed at the audacity, the unfathomable depth of evil and consequently the persecution of Tychikos. And evil of course is not a negligible force: it is demonic energy and whoever bears it and exercises it cannot but be led and carried by demonic forces, while of course his consent and cooperation with the temptation of wealth, power, archomania, avarice and the delusion that someone alone, whatever office he has, can govern the Church as if it were his little shop, with commercial terms and street methods.
To all of us, priests, laymen, theologians, tholologists, ecologists, monks and unmonked and especially hierarchs who boast that they know the scriptures by heart and use verses in their speeches, we should remind that "God is love" (1 Jn. 4:16). And this is evangelical you know and perhaps the strongest and saving message of the Gospel. Our Lord IS love, he does not simply have love. So who is evil? Do I need to mention it? I don't even want to mention his name. With simple mathematics then to conclude that whoever exercises and embraces and agrees and is silent with the evil he sees in front of him, essentially cooperates and applauds the leader of evil.
To see how luciferian is all this handling of Tychikos by some, consider that in the name of love these are ready to embrace and walk with papists, protestants, mormons, evangelists and other heretics whose end will not be, but they cannot in the name of love forgive Tychikos nor accept him and walk with him, while he is an Orthodox Christian.. baptized and spirit-bearing.
And to close by posing a question to all those who condemned the former Paphos Tychikos and all those who agreed with his condemnation: if Tychikos from the much evil he received in his soul and body, as demonic and violent energy, does not endure and finally dies from a disease that however was caused by evil, will those who exercised violence and evil on him have some spiritual responsibility? Have they fallen into the sin of the criminal of murder either knowingly or out of ignorance? Will we preach murder only for abortions? Will the Church condemn only the murderers who are in prisons as killers who need repentance? And if some of them finally repent, before they leave this vain world, while they have killed Tychikos and every Tychikos, will it be considered that they are clean and blameless?
These are of God someone will say and I agree: the final judgment is His exclusive affair. However, I am not speaking about the final judgment and the classification of each in Paradise or in perdition, but about the classification of each of us in the conscience of the Church in this life and if possible in the restoration of truth to the extent of this life. Some obviously should not continue to pretend and behave as pure and infallible. The Pope started this (obviously it suited many in the course of ecclesiastical history) and today's accept it as a right intertwined with their priesthood and archpriesthood. With the consequence of course to have long lost the hope of their repentance. For how can someone repent, when he always considers correct what he does and does everything to prove he is right?
In conclusion, the case of the former Paphos Tychikos highlighted once again a spiritually deadly disease that exists within the body of the Church, which when connected with the office and high position turns into a lethal weapon that shatters the soul and spiritual existence while often sickens the body to death. Such a person within the Church is a murderer of the soul and the body, while our Christ is the physician of our soul and body (as explicitly mentioned in the Divine Liturgy)
Such attitudes and behaviors are found throughout ecclesiastical and human history, but today they are probably now the rule and not the exception. Let us turn to the innermost of our heart and fight evil within us. It is necessary to uproot this weed from within us, before it becomes a deadly and bitter tree that kills not only our own self but also the others on whom we exercise it with whatever pretext and excuse..
As for the former Paphos Tychikos himself, we wish him to follow to the end the course and stance of our Holy Fathers, old and contemporary. To sit on the side, silently prayerfully, until the First and Great High Priest of our Orthodox Church gives the final solution. As did the Great Holy Hierarchs, the Great Athanasios, Saint Gregory the Theologian, Saint John Chrysostom, the Great Basil, Saint Gregory Palamas, Saint Mark Eugenikos, Saint Nektarios and so many other Holy Bishops, Confessors and Martyrs of our Orthodox faith. The living examples have preceded for centuries in our Ecclesiastical History. He knows with His unspeakable and philanthropic Providence what is His spiritual and saving Will for each of us. But we know from the scriptures that love for Christ casts out fear (1 Jn. 4:18). So let him not fear and accept upon his existence all the fury, injustice and evil with trust in His will. We all wish for this.
Bishop Tychikos is reportedly in a hospital in Athens, according to a post by a group of his friends on Social Media.
As his group of friends and supporters claim, he is facing a health problem, underwent a series of tests and was subsequently admitted.
They already add, through a letter he sent to the Archbishop of Cyprus, that he told him that "Coming from Constantinople, he did not feel well and stayed in Athens for examinations."
They also add that any members within the Holy Synod who "question or are concerned will be able to call the doctors to inform them."
They pointed out, however, that none of them had looked for him for so many months, nor had anyone called him, specifically saying that if they had looked for him, they would have known about his health condition.
Bishop Tychikos, in a relevant video posted by his group of friends and supporters, asks for everyone's prayers, just as he himself prays for Paphos, which he loves so much, but also for the whole of Cyprus, and for every Christian.
"May this trial pass and better days come for our Church," he notes. Finally, he praised God and thanked him.
The health problem he faced reportedly arose before his departure for the Ecumenical Patriarchate, authoritative sources report.
As for the confession of faith requested of him by the Holy Synod, Bishop Tychikos seems to still believe that he signed it on June 18, 2025 at 11:10 in the morning and sent it to the Office of the Holy Synod, through which he explicitly clarifies that he accepts all the decisions of the ecumenical councils. It is also alleged that for this reason, according to the same information, he considers that he meets the requirements requested of him on May 22 by the Holy Synod and does not need to sign anything else.
Source: KYPE
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