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A reply to an editor from Madrid
Post date: 2010-09-18Autor: Synod UO GCC
Dear Sir, concerning Your questions about our consecration and our Church, we reply:The question concerning us and our Synod: We announced our consecration to the Holy Father Benedict XVI and made it public. We informed him that if he would like to acquaint himself with all the details of our consecration, including the photographs, we are ready at any time for an audience where we can explain everything to him. Unallowed consecration in the Latin Church is punished with excommunication. This, however, does not apply to the Byzantine Church. And moreover, Husar as an apostate – i.e. as excommunicated from the Church – cannot excommunicate us. He did attempt to do so hypocritically by means of a frame-up trial which, however, backfired on him, convicted him of wrongdoing and brought shame on him. The Holy Father, the believers and us did not accept the results of his “trial”. Moreover, a bishop can be excommunicated by the Pope alone. There is only one exception – when a bishop is excommunicated by himself by reason of overt apostasy.