How is apostolic succession in the Orthodox Church maintained when a bishop metropolitan archbishop and especially a Patriarch is no longer Orthodox, and does not return to the Faith? Has this ever happened in the Orthodox Church, as with any Arian or Monophysite Patriarchs?
The Pope of Rome left Orthodoxy; what happens when a Patriarch of Constantinople or Constantinople falls into schism/heresy?
I guess I shouldn\'t wonder about such things; the Church as a whole is maintained in her Orthodoxy; I just wonder how Orthodox is restored to the hierarchy when one Patriarch goes into error, maybe like Moscow did under communist influence.
Is apostolic succession maintained even when a previous Patriarch-chief bishop has gone astray? Was Metaxakis (is that his name) the Patriach of Constantinople in the 1920s, etc a Mason? Didn\'t he approve the New Calendar for the Greek Orth. Church?
Scott
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