To Representatives and Believers

                                                                                       of the Scottish Episcopal Church

                God’s anathema upon the Scottish Episcopal Church

The Scottish Episcopal Church was one of the first Churches to declare openly that the fact that someone is an active homosexual constitutes no bar to his or her ordination!

You confirmed this attitude of Yours in a document from March 2005, which states: “(We) had never regarded the fact that someone was in a close relationship with a member of the same sex as in itself constituting a bar to the exercise of an ordained ministry...”

This statement as well as the overall stance of this Scottish anti-Church is in sharp contrast to the essence of the whole Scripture and to the law of God.

You have rejected God’s laws and the authority of God the Creator and Supreme Lawgiver. You no longer call evil evil, a sin a sin, an abomination an abomination. You exchanged the truth for a lie and turned the Church of God into a synagogue of Satan (Rev 2:9).

The fruit of perversion is no blessing but a curse and self-destruction. The apostatical Church in Scotland has ceased to be a blessing for the nation and brings down a curse upon it as well as upon all Europe.

The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate, by authority of the apostolic and prophetic office before God and before the Mystical Body of Christ, which is the true Church of Christ, hereby declares before all Christians of the world (Mt 18:18): The Scottish Episcopal anti-Church is no longer the Church of Christ but spiritual Babylon and the harlot of antichrist (Rev 17:1-6). We hereby call upon every member of this Church to be converted, to repent and to go out from that spiritual Babylon (Isa 52:11). The spirit of antichrist cast the Spirit of God out of this Church. All who want to be saved must separate from this anti-Church because it leads the deceived souls to eternal damnation in hell. This anti-Church has become a synagogue of Satan (see Rev 3:9; Rev 2:20-24) and preaches a different gospel. “Even if an angel from heaven should preach any other gospel to you, let him be accursed.” (Gal 1:8-9) By reason of apostasy from the Gospel of God, God has cast this curse upon the Scottish Episcopal anti-Church.

On behalf of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

                                                                       + Elijah

                                                                       Patriarch

                                         + Methodius OSBMr                     + Timothy OSBMr

                                                               Secretaries of the BCP

                                                                                                                                  Lvov (Ukraine),12 July 2011

Copies to:

-         Political representatives of Scotland

-         Presidents of EU member states and MEPs

-         All Christian Churches of the world

-         Mass media of Scotland and the EU