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'''The [[Holy Synod in Resistance|Synod-in-Resistance]] of Metropolitan Cyprian of Fili''': While this church's official [[ecclesiology]] is peculiar, the amount of work that Metropolitan Cyprian of Fili and his synod have done to assist True Orthodox throughout the world is impressive, and must be noted. The church itself is rather small, but has been very effective in presenting intellectual arguments against the New Calendar State Church. It is headed by another defector from the Auxentios Synod, Cyprian (Koutsoumbas) of Fili, and holds a unique an ecclesiology of “sick�? “sick" and “healthy�? “healthy" churches, thus avoiding the repercussions that inevitably follow referring to the majority as subject to a schismatic body. Their ecclesiology is considered heretical by the more rigorist elements of the True Orthodox who have been influenced by Matthewite positions.

'''[[Genuine Orthodox Church of Greece (Lamian Synod)|The Synod of Archbishop Makarios of Athens (Lamian Synod)]]''': In 1995, a resistance faction of six bishops formed within the synod of Chrysostom (Kiousis) and separated itself over what they claimed to be a series of canonical infractions, headed by Metropolitan Kallinikos of Lamia. Those infractions included setting up a secret shadow corporation The charges related to gain control the trial of certain funds and renting new office space without synodal approval. One Metropolitan of these bishops, Thessaloniki Euthymios (Orphanos (Metropolitan of Thessaloniki), who years before had been chosen to replace Chrysostomos (Kiousis) as metropolitan of Thessalonikicharged with moral infractions, when and the latter separated himself from the Auxentian synod, was accused election of morals charges. Although the majority Bishop Vikentios (Malamatenios) of the synod members found no grounds for a trial (Avlona as the civil authorities had cleared Metropolitan Euthymios), Archbishop Chrysostomos continued to demand a trial, but each time he was voted down. After a vote to investigate Archbishop Chrysostomos, he and his faction left the meeting and refused to meet with the rest of the bishops, thus causing a splitPeiraeus. By early 1997, the synod bishops headed by Kallinikos of Kallinikos and Euthymios Lamia had fragmented into three groups, one of which reconciled with Archbishop Chrysostom (Kiousis). A second group, Paisios Loulourgas (BpMet. of America) and Vikentios Malamatenios (titular Bp. of Avlona), submitted to the Ecumenical Patiarchate. Later that same year, Kallinikos of Lamia and Euthymios of Thessaloniki proceeded to ordain five titular bishops in an attempt to create a new synod. In 2003, they finally decided to elect a primate, and elected Makarios (Kavakides) of Athens. A good deal of their membership was then lost, as many who did not see themselves as separate from the Kiousis synod were forced to decide between the two.