St. Michael Academy Orthodox Bible College Letter to Patriarchate Barthlomew 6-15-2000

June 12, 2000

The Holy Patriarchate of Constantinople

His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

The Chief Secretariat of the Holy and Sacred Synod

Metropolitan Meliton of Philadelphia

Rum Patrikhanesi

H. Fener - Istanbul

Turkiye

RE: Letter from Ecumenical Patriarchate dated September 6, 1999

Dear Your Eminence

We immediately began to communicate with the Ecumenical Officer, His Grace Bishop Demetrios of Xanthos, on your advisement and suggestion in your letter of September 6, 1999. Our communications consisted of many phone calls and written correspondence to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese directly and with His Grace Demetrios. We have been ignored and stonewalled to any reasonable resolution for ecumenical union

We have waited patiently for an answer, or any valid plan to normalize and remove any doubt or confusion as to our legitimate ecclesiastic claim of our canonical status. We have commemorated His Holiness Bartholomew in our Divine Liturgy service since 1921. We believe we are in communion with the Holy Mother Church. Yet, there is no response other than the quote: "What exactly do you want?" Still no effort or progress to date. Why? Our jurisdiction was a founding member since 1960 in S.C.O.B.A. with our Metropolitan Palladios.

Enclosures will support our current positions in the Holy Church. I personally have met the Holy Canons concerning a married Episcopate on the canon of estranged (different residence) yet no divorce, relationship. The Internet documentation, www.stmichaelacademy.org, may completely inform the Patriarchate of our S.C.O.B.A. history as a jurisdiction in full communion with God's Holy Mother Church. If this letter brings no position response, we will still continue to work as servants in out Lord's vineyard, bearing fruit for His glory.

Yours in Christ's Service

+Archbishop Haralambos

Enc: Correspondence with

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and S.C.O.B.A.