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Meletius IV (Metaxakis) of Constantinople

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His entreaties to the [[Anglican Communion|Anglican Church]] courted controversy within Orthodoxy. On December 17, 1921, the Greek Ambassador in Washington sent a message to the prefect at Thessaloniki stating that Meletius "vested, took part in an Anglican service, knelt in prayer with Anglicans, venerated their Holy Table, gave a sermon, and later blessed those present."
Under pressure from Meletius, the Patriarchate of Constantinople accepted the validity of Anglican orders in 1922 — an act which even Rome protested against. Then, in 1923, Meletius initiated the "Pan-Orthodox" Congress (May 10–June 8), which proposed to abandon the historic Orthodox Paschalion and Menologion and adopt the new calendar; to transfer major feastdays to the nearest Sundays in order to lessen the holidays; to allow a married episcopate, for widowed priests to remarry and for unmarried priests to be allowed to marry after their ordination; to shorten the Church services; to abolish the fasts; to allow clergy to cut their hair and shave their beards; and to allow clergy to wear secular clothing in public.([http://www.orthodoxfaith.com/history_timeline.html 1]) The Local Orthodox Churches do not recognize this false council, and on On June 1st, clergy and laymen dissatisfied with the innovating Patriarch held a meeting which ended in an attack on the Phanar forcing Patriarch with the goal of deposing Meletius Metaxakis to resign and expelling him from officeConstantinople.
== Retirement ==
==Comparative Study==
A critical perspective of Metaxakis including a historically relevant set of details is presented by the following Old Calendar timeline:
*See in particular the entries for: ''1909'' (his early Masonic involvement), ''April 23, 1920'' (influence of Kemal Ataturk), ''June 1923'' (Pan-Orthodox Congess), ''Sept.20 1923'' (Metaxakis subjected to assault and battery by the people of Constantinople), and ''July 1935'' (Metaxakis' troubled death, and burial with Masonic emblems).
:[http://www.roacamerica.org/art-text_timeline.shtml Timeline of the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Russia and Greece] (authorship by Florinite associated group).
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