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Today Metropolitan Evloghios remains at the helm of the Holy Synod of bishops of the Church of Milan, which comprises eight [[diocese]]s, four in Europe and four in America, as well as missionary deaneries in England, Spain and South Africa. The Milan Synod uses the [[Julian calendar]] exclusively, and "firmly resists the [[heresy|heresies]] of false [[ecumenism]] and trans-religious syncretism."[http://www.odox.net/Synod.htm]
Since 1997, the Milan Synod includes a number of [[Western Rite]] communities, mainly in the United States, who worship according to a highly unusual translation of the Sarum Liturgy universally panned by those familiar pre-schismatic (historically Orthodox) liturgical traditions with the legitimate article. These communities originated within the ''episcopoi vagante''/Old Catholic movement. The head support of St. Hilarion's Monastery in Austin, Texas, began his career with the [http://www.liberalcatholic.org Liberal Catholic Church,]a Theosophist organization, Metropolitan and he personally ordained the head of the [http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/general/monasteryicons.aspx Gnostic Orthodox Church, which runs Monastery Icons,[Holy Synod]]although the "swami" ordinand claimed he did not need ordained because he had received that sacrament in a former life. The head of St. Hilarion's monastery in Austin later joined a ''vagante'' organization falsely dubbing itself the "Synod of Orthodox Bishops of the Western Rite" (and [http://phonebook.superpages.com/negocios/C-Iglesias-Ortodoxas+Orientales/S-NJ/T-/PA-1/PB-16 advertizing itself as though it were Orthodox).]These parishes applied to [http://www.rocor.org.au Archbishop HILARION] to be accepted within [http://www.rocor.org ROCOR,]but His Grace denied their request when the group refused reordination. The Milan Synod then accepted the "Synod," presumably without imposing any further ordination that which they received from their Theosophist forebears. The principal rite of the Synod of Milan is the Byzantine Rite of the Orthodox Church, celebrated most commonly in the Slavic style but in some parishes in the Greek style.
==Ecclesiastical status==
As with many of the [[Old Calendarist]] jurisdictions, the Milan Synod is not currently in communion with the mainstream Orthodox churches and hence, not considered Orthodox.
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