IN DEFENSE OF ANGLO-ORTHODOXY
Archbishop Athenagoras (Kokkinakis), standing with Archbishop Michael Ramsey outside the St. Sophia Cathedral, London, on June 20th, 1964 By Bp. Joseph ( Ancient Church of the West ) INTRODUCTION The recent article published by the so-called "Union of Orthodox Journalists" (a known platform for Russian state-sponsored propaganda), The Rise and Fall of 'Anglo-Orthodoxy' , is less a work of history than a polemical tract designed to advance Moscow’s old imperial narrative that it alone remains as the " one true church ." It seeks to dismiss two centuries of serious Anglo-Orthodox dialogue and to portray all native English-born Orthodox movements as failed experiments. In doing so, it distorts the record, ignores the living witness of the Ancient Church of the West and her sister jurisdictions in the World Federation of Orthodox and Apostolic Churches, and recycles the Russian Church’s ethnophilic triumphalist myths about itself as the sole ark of salvation. ON...
