Finally, asking for your blessings, we conclude with respect,

Hieromonk Ephraim, former abbot, Elder of the Skete of Apostle Andrew & the brotherhood with me, of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi.
Elder Hieromonk Eustratios, Great Lavra Monastery.
Elder Hieromonk Poimen, Holy Monastery of Zographou
Elder Hieromonk Basileios, Holy Monastery of Zographou
Elder Hieromonk Bessarion, Holy Monastery of Zographou
Monk Nikodemos (Bilalis, Sacred Cell “of the Presentation” from Kapsala
Monk Artemios, Great Lavra Monastery
Priestmonk Hilarion, Great Lavra Monastery
Paisios Monk, Great Lavra Monastery
Savvas Monk, Great Lavra Monastery
Sacred Deacon Chariton, Great Lavra Monastery
Chariton Monk, Karoulia, Great Lavra Monastery
Athanasios Monk, Karoulia, Great Lavra Monastery
Elder Vlasios Monk, Kserokalyvo Viglas, Great Lavra Monastery
Akakios Monk Sacred Place of Holy Trinity (Kyr Esaias), Great Lavra Monastery
Elder Esaias Monk, Kellion of the Birth of the Mother of God, Great Lavra Monastery
Cherubim Monk, Sacred Place of the Archangels, Great Lavra Monastery
Hieromonk Damaskinos, Kellion of Holy Trinity at Karyes, Great Lavra Monastery
Elder Nektarios Monk, Kellion of Holy Trinity at Karyes, Great Lavra Monastery
Elder Theolyptos Monk & the fathers with him; Kellion of the Sacred Forerunner, St.Anne's Skete, Great Lavra Monastery
Hieromonk Gabriel, Sacred Kellion of St. George (Kartsounaion) Sacred Skete of St. Anne, Great Lavra Monastery
Hieromonk Chrysostomos Kartsonas, Great Lavra Monastery
Elder Kosmas Monk, Sacred Hut of St Demetrios, Skete of Saint Anne, Great Lavra Monastery
Elder Panteleimon Monk, Sacred Kellion of St Panteleimon, Sacred Skete of Holy Trinity, Great Lavra Monastery
Elder Sophronios Monk, Sacred Hut of Entrance of the Theotokos, Sacred Skete of Holy Trinity, Great Lavra Monastery
Parthenios Monk, Sacred Hut Entrance of Theotokos, Sacred Skete of Holy Trinity Great Lavra Monastery
Athanasios Monk at Vouleutiria, Great Lavra Monastery
Elder Hieromonk Serapheim, Kellion of All Saints, Skete of Saint Anne, Great Lavra Monastery
Elder Daniel Monk, Saint Anne's, Great Lavra Monastery
Elder Gerasimos Monk Sacred Hut of St. George, Katounakia, Great Lavra Monastery
Elder Hieromonk Benediktos, Kellion of Ss Konstantine and Eleni, Vatopedi Monastery
Paisios Monk, Kellion of Archangels (Savvaion) Karyes, Hilandari Monastery
Silouanos Monk Sacred Hut of St. Nicholas, Nea Skete, St. Paul Monastery
Gabriel Monk Kellion of Koutloumousiou of Saint Christodoulos
Dositheos Monk, Koutloumousiou Monastery Place
Elder Nektarios Monk, Sacred Hut of Holy Trinity, Skete of Koutloumousiou Monastery
Paisios Monk, Kellion of Saint Barbara, Koutloumousiou Monastery
Elder Moses Monk, Kellion St. John Chrysostomos, Skete of St. Panteleimonos, Koutloumousiou Monastery
Elder Hieromonk Abraaham, Sacred Hut of St Gerasimos Kefalinias, Skete of St. Panteleimonos, Koutloumousiou Monastery
Elder Spyridon Monk, Kellion of St. Nicholas, Koutloumousiou Monastery
Theodoulos Monk, formerly of Koutloumousiou Monastery
Elder Hieromonk Chrysostom, Kellion of St. Spyridon of Kerkyra, Koutloumousiou Monastery
Hilarion Monk, Sacred Place of Doheiariou Monastery (Platon area)
Elder Nikodemos Monk, Kellion of St. Nektarios Kapsala, Pantokratoros Monastery
Hieromonk Gabriel, Kellion of Quick to Hear Mother of God, Pantokratoros Monastery
Isaac Monk, Kellion of Birth of Mother of God, Kapsala, Pantokratoros Monastery
Elder Athanasios Monk, Kellion of St. Athanasios, Pantokratoros Monastery
Elder Meletios Monk, Birth of Theotokos, Kapsala, Pantokratoros Monastery
Elder Gregory Monk, Kellion of St. Nicholas, Kapsala, Pantokratoros Monastery
Elder Onoufrios Monk, Kellion Dormition of Theotokos, Karyes
Elder Nicholas Monk, Kellion of St. Demetrios, Karyes
Hieromonk Gabriel, Kellion of Holy Archangels (Kombologas), Karyes

These are the names, thus far, of Fathers and Monks as of this publishing, who up to now commemorated OEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. There are many others who are now asking to add their names to this list of Holy Mountain Orthodox confessors.

The editor’s notes in this article have been added, not by the editor of “The Shepherd” but by the editor of the website on which this letter has been posted. We have listed the signatories of this Protest because surely they deserve to be remembered in our prayers and commemorated in our Liturgies.

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FROM THE SACRED CANONS

“AS FOR THOSE who, on account of some heresy condemned by Holy Synods or Fathers, sever themselves from communion with their president, that is, because he publicly preaches heresy and with bared head teaches teaches it in the Church, such persons as these are not subject to canonical penalty for walling themselves off from communion with the so-called bishop before synodical clarification, but they shall be deemed worthy of due honour among the Orthodox. For not bishops, but false bishops and false teachers have they condemned, and they have not fragmented the Church’s unity with schism, but from schism and divisions have they earnestly sought to deliver the Church.”

Canon XV of the First & Second Council of Constantinople

Note: Doubtless it is on the basis of this canon that the many Athonite Fathers who are now refusing to commemorate their former president, the OEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, are making their stand, and as the canon teaches, they “shall be deemed worthy of due Honour among the Orthodox.”