Greece
1955-1978
The new Hierarchy of G.O.C.
After the death of the confessor Hierarch ex-.Florinis Chrysostomos the Holy Agon of the G.O.C. became orphan. The ecclesiastical administration undertook committee from clergymen with chairman reverence Archimandrite Akakios Papas and members the Archimandrites Loggios Hatzistefanou, Merkurios Kaloskamis, Germanos Athanasiou, AuxentiosPastras, Kaliopios Giannakopoulos, Matthaios Laggis, Grigorios Papavlahos, priest Konstantinos Papantoniou and secretary the Archimandrite Panteleimona Tsaloupi. From the beginning of undertaking the administration, the above committee placed as objective the recovery of Orthodox Church in the abroad in order to ordain new 
Hierarchs for the G.O.C. Church. From the Church of Russians of Dissemination appearred certain hopes. The G.O.C. had come in contacts with the Hierarchy of Russians of Dissemination another time at 1934, when they were in Serbia for the same reason, namely that the G.O.C. of Greece acquire Hierarchs,but intervened the undertaking of ecclesiastical administration of G.O.C. from the three Hierarchs and it ceased the demand. At that time, clergy and faithful of G.O.C. elected the chairman of ecclesiastical Committee Archim. Akakios Papas, who went to U.S.A., and at the December of 1960 he was ordained as a Bishop by two Hierarchs of the Russian Church of Dissemination, Archbishop Serafeim of Chicago (Ivanov) and Bishop Theophilo (Ionesco), in the cathedral of Saint Nicolas Chicago. The ordination of Bishop Akakios was valid at everything, except that it fell short of election by the Synod of the Russians of Dissemination. This void was supplemented later and typically by a Synodical decision of the Russian Church ofDissemination, which was sent in the 18th/31st of December of 
1969 to the Archbishop Auxentios. Since the new Hierarch came back in Greece, he undertook the pastorate of the Holy Agon of the G.O.C.At 1962, Bishop Akakios invited the Archbishop Leontios of Chile of the Russian Church of Dissemination, and ordained three Bishops, Parthenios (Skourlis) as Bishop of Cyclades, Ayxentios (Pastras) as Bishop of Gardikiou and Chrysostomos (Naslimis) as Bishop of Magnisias. Since Archbishop Leontios left, the four Greek Bishops ordained the Archimandrites Akakios (Papas, Bishop Akakios’s nephew) as Bishop of Diavlias and Gerontios (Margiolis) as Bishop of Salamina. This six-member Hierarchy elected Bishop of Talantiou Akakios as Primate and Archbishop. Bishop of Cyclades Parthenios died after a few months, and at the 1st of December of 1963 Archbishop Akakios
died, also. After a few days (7/12/63), Bishop of Gardikiou Auxentios was elected as Archbishop and Primate of G.O.C.. At 1964, the editing of the bill of rights of the Church of G.O.C.was assigned to a committee, and it was deposited in the Pan-Hellenic Congress of clergymen on approval. The congress did not ratify the Constitutive map and was withdrawn. We could say that the next years passed quietly for the Church of G.O.C. of Greece, especially after the decision of the state (132010/1966) for protection of religious freedom of G.O.C. The memorable Archbishop Auxentios didn’t ever forget the benefaction of the Russian Synod of Dissemination at 1960 for the G.O.C. of Greece. All the previous years the Hierarchs of the two Churches were corresponding and at 1970 the Secretary of the H. Synod of Dissemination, Bishop Lavros of Manhattan (presently Primate of ROCA), came in Greece, and our Bishops officiated together at the H. Temple of Panagia – Tsakou. The Holy Synod of G.O.C. of Greece reciprocated that visit in 1971 when its members with head Archbishop Auxentios, went in America and took part in a common Synodical Meeting.
The clouds started to come again over the G.O.C. but this time because of internal disputes. Since 1970, Bishop of Diavlias Akakios started to show disruptive tendencies.
August of 1970. The Archieratical communal of the Hierarchy of G.O.C of Greece with the bishop of Manhattan (ex- hierarch of R.O.C) in Lavrion.
His counteractive tactics climaxed with the new ordinations of Bishops. Archbishop Auxentios and Bishop Gerontios, since Bishop of Magnisias Chrysostomos suffered by hemiplegia, thought to ordain new Bishops afraid of new lack of Hierarchs, having bad experience from the past. Bishop of Diavlias Akakios didn’t agree with this decision. The two Hierarchs, Auxentios and Gerontios, The two Hierarchs Auxentios and Gerontios, having and the conform opinion of patient Bishop of Magnesias Chrysostomos, ordained at 1971 four new Bishops, the Archimandrites, Paisios (Eftimiadis) as Bishop Evripou,
Chrysostomos (Kiousis) as Bishop of Thessalonica, Kallinikos (Haniotis) as Bishop of Thavmakou and Akakios (Ntouskos) as Bishop of Canada.
At this period, the Temples and Monasteries that depended in the Holy Synod are up to 250. The next year becomes effort once again for the approval of Constitutive Chart but also again fails and is withdrawn. Memorable Archbishop Auxentios trying to coil the Hierarchy achieves to restore in the Holy Synod the Bishop of Diavlias Akakios.
At 1973, the Holy Synod under the memorable Auxentios decides new Bishopordinations, of two Archimandrites. Those of Gabriel
(Kalamisakis) as Bishop of Cyclades and Antonios (Thanasis) as Bishop of Megaridos. In the July of the same year, Bishop Chrysostomos of Magnisias died.At 1974, Bishops were called to sign the confessional encyclical. Bishop of Astoria Petros denied signing it and excided from the Holy Synod.Simultaneously excided once again the Metropolitan of Attica Akakios and was followed by the Metropolitans (henceforth) Chrysostomos (Kiousis) of Thessalonica and Gavriel (Kalamisakis), of Cyclades accusing the remaining Bishops and particularly the Archbishop Auxentios. They also officiated with the excided for faith reasons, Bishop Petros of Astoria. At December of the same year the Holy Synod imposes leisure to the Metr/n Akakios and later to the Metr. Chrysostomos but they never respected the decision of the Holy Synod. The next years passed with intensity and civil war. At 1977 the Mathewist Metropolitan Kallistos (Makris) of Corinth
joined the Holy Synod. Because of this, Metr Chrysostomos of Thessaloniki came back to the Synod. Metr Akakios of Attiki continued his hostile attitude against the Holy Synod, therefore he becomes deposed from his Metropolis. Metr Chrysostomos of Thessaloniki followed the same policy as ex-Metr AkakiosAfter a lot of water holes of the Holy Synod in order to bring 
Metr Chrysostomos in reason, he became deposed from his Metropolis. So, the Holy Synod of G.O.C. had to face not only the Ecumenism and the New-calendarism, but the saboteurs of the cohesion and concord. Metropolitans Akakios of Attica, Chrysostomos of Thessaliniki, Gabriel of Cyclades and Petros of Astoria by their age-long impermissible attitude against the Holy Synod, the sling mud of many clerics and contemning the Administration of Church, indicated to the later putschists, the street of apostasy.