"Funny, considering that being "calendar challeneged" was good for the Orthodox Church for the past 1980 years (and still is for 85% of all Orthodox in this world), and that it was a heretical Greek Ecumencial Patriarch who, among other things, in 1923, unilaterally recognized Anglican communion and uniaterally proclaimed Orthodox-Anglican "union!""
Another example of the Orthodox Laity NOT saying "AXIOS"!
Indeed. And knowing that the very same heretical EP, who proclaimed the non-existent Orthodox-Anglican union, by personally "recognizing" their ordinations, is the architect of the "new calendar," it is indeed surprising that his unholy legacy continues to dwell and divide Orthodox Christians.
An Orthodox abbot told me the other day that the current EP Bartholomew I promised him and others personally in 2003 that he would return the Church to the Calendar that served us 2,000 years, but apparently reneged on this promise.
I am not sure how much truth is in that rumor, but it is certainly something the EP should be doing.