1.
Throughout the past centuries, the
Holy Mountain has remained - with the Grace
of Christ - the faithful guardian of the
holy Orthodox Faith, which the God-heralding
Apostles had delivered to the Church and
which our God-bearing Fathers with the holy
Ecumenical Synods had preserved, unforged,
over the ages. This same delivered Faith was
likewise preserved faithfully by our
predecessor Holy Mountain Fathers.
2. After having been informed that during
the impending Plenary Session of the Joint
Commission for the Theological Dialogue in
Cyprus, between the Orthodox Church and the
Roman Catholics, the subject is to be
«the role of the Bishop of Rome in the
communion of the Churches during the first
millennium», our Sacred Community, not
knowing the exact content of the said
Dialogue, is hereby expressing its extreme
worry and concern, because the Papal
Primacy is foreseen for discussion, before
Papism has even begun to cast out its
heretic dogmas and its secular character
(the Vatican State). Therefore, the
only prerequisite for a discussion of the
Primacy to take place is the return of the
Roman Catholics to the Orthodox Faith and
the Conciliar polity of the Orthodox Church,
and not the "unity in diversity" of
dogmas.
3. «This
is the Orthodox Church - the only One, Holy,
Catholic and Apostolic Church» as also
declared in the most venerable Holy Temple
of the Protaton by His Most Holy Beatitude
the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the
21-8-2008, during his visit to the Holy
Mountain. That is what we believe also, and
we will remain steadfast in everything that
our holy fathers had proclaimed.