Synodikon (Decree) of Anathema
-The Excommunication of Demetrios Hadjistavrides from Athens - Greece-
Unto his beloved Old Roman Catholic Sons dwelling in
Europe
ALEXANDROS
Archbishop-Metropolitan of the True Old Roman Catholic
Church.
Beloved Sons, Greeting and Apostolic Benediction.
In the pale of a grave and enduring scandal, it is
with the most profound grief of soul that We have learned that soidisant “Father”
Dimitrios Hadjistavrides, from Athens-
Greece, seeking
his own glory rather than that of Jesus Christ has slandered Old Roman Catholic
Bishops by means of calumny and infamy. This indeed very serious sin bordering on heresy. To the defrocked and deposed priest Dimitrios Hadistavrides
is the
removal of his rights to exercise the functions of the ordained ministry.
-QUAESTIONES CANONICAE-
When it comes to Catholics who are formally guilty of
heresy, apostasy or schism, the Church applies the penalty of
excommunication. The 1983 Code of Canon Law repeats in forma et in modo
the sanctions of the earlier 1917 Code. According to canon 1364 of the
Code of Canon Law of 1983, the heretic as well as the apostate from the
Faith and the schismatic incur automatic excommunication, a.k.a. latae
sententiae excommunication or ipso facto excommunication. Indeed,
canon 1364 reads: “An apostate from the faith, a heretic, or a schismatic
incurs a latae sententiae excommunication …” Canon 751 defines these
three crimes: “Heresy is the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt
after Baptism of a truth which must be believed by divine and Catholic
faith. Apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith. Schism is
the withdrawal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or from communion with
the members of the Church subject to him.” In any case, according to the
ancient tradition of the Catholic Church, it is the duty of every Bishop,
Archbishop, Primate or Metropolitan hunt down and excommunicate all
heretics that, in a diabolical way, seek to destroy the holy Church of Christ.
-DECLARATION-
Turning Our thoughts and Our solicitude first of
all to you, Beloved Sons, of whose constant and devoted good will we have
ever received such illustrious testimony, We vigorously exhort you
to guard zealously against their frauds and snares. Furthermore, lest
We should appear to betray Our office, being faithful to the examples of the
True Old Roman Catholic Bishops (namely Abps Arnold Harris Mathew, Rudolph
de Landas Berghes, Carmel Henry Carfora, Richard Arthur Marchenna ,Gerard
George Shelley, Federick Linale, Robert Butler, Ronald-George Septoe
etc.), We hereby excommunicate the above-named Dimitrios Hadistavrides and we
hereby anathematize, and solemnly command and declare him to be separated
from the communion of the Old Roman Catholic Church and to be held for
schismatic, and to be avoided by all Old Roman Catholics as Vitandi.
To the defrocked and deposed priest Dimitrios Hadistavrides
ANATHEMA !
We exhort you also, Beloved Sons, to join your fervent
prayers to Ours, beseeching God that He deign mercifully to lead back to
the sheepfold of Christ and the port of salvation these unhappily errant
men.
Given at Rome, at Our Episcopal Cathedral, under Our Metropolitan Ring, the ninth day of March, A.D. 2016.
ALEXANDROS
Archbishop-Metropolitan of the True Old Roman Catholic Church
and all Orthodox Catholic Bishops in communion with
Our Metropolitan See.
