Canons Against Ecumenism

A (non-exhaustive) list of Holy Canons that the ecumenists violate, publicly and frequently, proving their apostasy.

Anathema upon those who hold in scorn the Sacred and Divine Canons of our Holy Fathers, which support the Holy Church and adorn all the Christian polity, and guide men to divine reverence.

Synod held in Constantinople after Constantine Porphyrogenitos, page 977, of the second volume of the synodals, or the Volume of the union.

The 85 Canons of the Holy Apostles

Canon 45

Let any Bishop, or Priest, or Deacon that only joins in prayer with heretics be suspended, but if he has permitted them to perform any service as clergy let him be deposed.

Canon 46

We order any Bishop or Priest, that has accepted any heretic’s baptism or sacrifice be deposed; for “what consonance has Christ with Belial? Or what part has the believer with an unbeliever?”

Canon 47

If a Bishop or Priest baptize anew anyone that has had a true baptism, or fail to baptize anyone that has been polluted by the impious, let him be deposed, on the ground that he is mocking the Cross and Death of the Lord and for failing to distinguish priests from pseudo-priests.

Canon 50

If any Bishop or Priest does not perform three immersions (baptisms) in making one baptism, but only a single immersion (baptism) that given into the death of the Lord, let him be deposed. For the Lord did not say, Baptize into my death, but, “Go you and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19).

Canon 65

If any Clergyman, or Layman, enter a synagogue of Jews or of heretics to pray, let him be both deposed and excommunicated.

Canon 69

If any Bishop, or Priest, or Deacon, or Subdeacon, Readers, or Psalti fails to fast throughout the forty days of the Great Fast, or on Wednesday, or on Friday, let him be deposed, unless he has been prevented from doing so by reason of bodily illness. If, on the other hand, any layman fail to do so, let him be excommunicated.

Canons of the Sixth Ecumenical Council

Trullo, A.D. 691.

Canon 23

Concerning the rule that no one, whether a Bishop, a Priest, or a Deacon, that imparts of the undefiled Communion shall collect from the partaker coins or any compensation whatsoever in exchange for such communion. For neither is grace bought, nor do we impart the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit for money; but, on the contrary, it must be imparted to the worthy without the incentive of knavishness. If, however, any person enrolled in the Clergy should be found to be demanding compensation of any kind from him to whom he imparts of the undefiled Communion, let him be deposed, on the ground that he is a votary of Simon’s delusion and malfeasance.

Canon 72

Let no Orthodox man be allowed to contract a marriage with a heretical woman, nor moreover let any Orthodox woman be married to a heretical man. But if it should be discovered that any such thing is done by any one of the Christians, no matter who let the marriage be deemed void, and let the lawless marriage tie be dissolved. For it is not right to mix things immiscible nor to let a wolf get tangled up with a sheep, and the lot of sinners get tangled up with the portion of Christ. If, therefore, anyone violates the rules we have made let him be excommunicated. But in case persons who happen to be still in the state of unbelief (i.e., infidels) and to be not yet admitted to the fold of the Orthodox have joined themselves to each other by lawful marriage, then and in that event, the one of them having chosen the good start by running to the light of truth, while the other, on the contrary, has been held down, by the bond of delusion for having failed to welcome the choice of gazing, at the divine rays (whether it be that an infidel woman has looked with favor upon a man who is a believer, or vice versa an infidel man upon a woman who is a believer), let them not be separated, in accordance with the divine Apostle: “For the infidel husband is sanctified by the wife, and the infidel wife by the husband” (I Corinthians 7:14).

Canons of the First-and-Second Synod

Constantinople, A.D. 861.

Canon 15

The rules laid down with reference to Priests and Bishops and Metropolitans are still more applicable to Patriarchs. So that in case any Priest or Bishop or Metropolitan dares to secede or apostatize from the communion of his own Patriarch, and, fails to mention the latter’s name in accordance with custom duly fixed and ordained, in the divine Mystagogy, but, before a synodal verdict has been pronounced and has passed judgment against him, creates a schism, the holy Synod has decreed that this person shall be held an alien to every priestly function if only he be convicted of having committed this transgression of the law. Accordingly, these rules have been sealed and ordained as respecting those persons who under the pretext of charges against their own presidents stand aloof, and create a schism, and disrupt the union of the Church.

But as for those persons, on the other hand, who, on account of some heresy condemned by holy Synods, or Fathers, withdrawing themselves from communion with their president, who, that is to say, is preaching the heresy publicly, and teaching it bareheaded in church, such persons not only are not subject to any canonical penalty on account of their having walled themselves off from any and all communion with the one called a Bishop, before any synodal verdict has been rendered, but, on the contrary, they shall be deemed worthy to enjoy the honor which befits them among Orthodox Christians. For they have defied, not Bishops, but pseudo-bishops and pseudo-teachers; and they have not sundered the union of the Church with any schism, but, on the contrary, have been sedulous to rescue the Church from schisms and divisions.

Canons of the Holy Fathers

St. Vincent of Lérins

In the catholic [Orthodox] Church itself, all possible care must be taken that we hold that Faith which has been believed everywhere, always, by all. For that is truly and in the strictest sense ‘catholic’ which, as the name itself and the reason of the thing declare, comprehends all universally. This rule we shall observe if we follow universality, antiquity, consent. We shall follow universality if we confess that one Faith to be true which the whole Church throughout the world confesses; antiquity, if we in no wise depart from those interpretations which it is manifest were notoriously held by our holy ancestors and fathers; consent, in like manner, if in antiquity itself we adhere to the unanimous definitions and determinations of all, or at the least of almost all priests and doctors.

The Vincentian Canon (c. A.D. 434)

St. Justinian

It has been prescribed by the Holy Fathers that even after death those men must be anathematized who have sinned against the Faith or against the Canons.

Saint Emperor Justinian I, Epistle to the Fifth Ecumenical Council, Constantinople II, A.D. 553, in the conciliar Acts [Mansi IX / Synodals vol. II, p. 392].