Why we Oppose
So the Pope by enforcing his finding he did not do nothing else than to violate and disregard the terms and the decisions of the Holy bearing Fathers .The arrogance and vanity of his had guided him in such a point so to put himself above the Holy-spirited Fathers.
Apart from that it is accepted from everyone. Never the time is going to be “tamed” by the man and in vain they calculate the accurate measure of it. Pope’s arrogance lead him in the reformance of at that time simple and easy to use Julian calendar into a complicated and complex time measurement system. And because we don’t care so much about the political calendar and the from time to time reforms of it but the ecclesiastical and the established eortology straight away our occupation is going to be the sequences the Papal calendaric innovation brought.
THE ORTHODOX OPPOSITION
According with the profane beliefs of the papals. The authority of the Pope is above everyone either political or spiritual. He holds the primacy over the rest of the Leading of Christianity not as the first between equals but as the overlie of everyone. He is the unquestionable expresser and interpreter of the Divine Truth, his word and his decisions oblige to be accepted and enforced to everyone.
With these heretical dogmas it was natural to be pursuit the enforcement of the Papal calendaric reformation to the Orthodoxs. The fact of the calendaric reform, had occupied the Orthodox Church even before the Pope’s arbitrarily. Already at the 14th century the astronomer and philosopher Niciforos Grigoras (1296-1360) whom had proposed to Emperor of Byzantium Adronico 2nd , the change of the ,on effect at that time, Julian calendar especially of the Easter.
Another apparent innovator was the almost current of the above Grigoras ,Georgios Gemistos or Plithon (1350-1450).The pursuits although of both of these innovators ,the Latin-thinking Grigoras ,and also of the defector Gemistos collided with the unmovable rock-mountain whom the Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Synod had put ,by foreseeing these blessed ones those that they were coming to manipulate the Sacred Institutes of the Church. So the Pope’s impiety of 1582 had found the Orthodoxs ready.
The next year of the calendar’s reform under the Pope was 1583, the then Patriarch of Constantinople was Ieremias 2nd had summoned a Synod at Constantinople being there the Patriarch of Alexandria Silvestros and they disbanded Pope’s innovation. They released an encyclical which everybody signed beside the absent Patriarchs and Metropolitans , Patriarch of Antioch and Metropolitan of Ahridos Gavriil.
Again at 1587 , synodicaly condemned the Papal innovation ,”as not needed ,as opposed to the sacred rules ,and as a cause of many scandals in every Christian nation at which is spoken at”(See Dodekavivlion Dositheu ,Tome 12 page 57, Published by Rigopulu). This holy synod reunited again at Constantinople and participated minus the Patriarch of Const/ple Ieremia, Alexandria’s Meletios and Ierosolima Sofronios.
The propagandistic acting of the Papal’s has been the cause for a third synod. At February of the year 1593, it was composed a Great Synod again at Constantinople under the presidency of Patriarch Const/ple Ieremia ,and by the presence of Patriarch of Alexandria Meletiu ,whom he also represented the Patriarch of Antioch Ioakim 7th,the Patriarch of Ierosolima Sofroniu 4th and forty other Archpriests ,whom at the 10th act condemned the calendaric innovation of the Pope. ” (See Dodekavivlion Dositheu, Tome 12 page 232, Published by Rigopulu).
So the papal innovation was condemned from its birth from the Orthodoxs. Minus that, at times, the Orthodox Patriarchs, with encyclicals had recommended to the Orthodox populace the avoidance of any of Pope’s innovations. As an indication we report the decisions of the in Const/ple Synods at 1722 under the Patriarch Ieremia 3rdand the 1838 under the Patriarch Grigoriu 6th. Also the common Patriarchic encyclical of 1848 in which it is clarified the notoriety and innovations of the papals confirming the persistence of the Patriarchies with the Orthodox Dogmas of the Church.