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[Kolokotronis]

This is a very interesting article in that it demonstrates in a way I hadn't seen before, the Episcopalian, and for all I know, the Anglican notion of "communion". The priests say they have been threatened with disposition for abandoning communion "with the church". In Orthodoxy, communion wouldn't be a description of the relation between a priest and "the church", but rather of that between bishops and other bishops. To the extent that clergy and faithful are unified around their bishop in a diocese, those clergy and faithful are "in communion" with the clergy and faithful in other dioceses where the bishops are in communion with the bishop of the first diocese. Were a similar situation to develop in an Orthodox diocese, unless there were a way for the priest and the bishop to work out a transfer, which likely couldn't happen if the issue was heresy, then a disobedient priest would simply be defrocked I suspect. His only recourse, I suppose, would, in the case of the GOA, be to the Patriarchal Synod.

I appreciate this post because it further fleshes out for me what these men mean when they speak of communion.