AN ANATHEMA AGAINST THE SERGIANISTS
On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, 1999, the Synod of the FROC (now
officially called the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church) declared: “A
resolution was passed concerning the hierarchs and representatives of the clergy
of the Moscow Patriarchate who received their rank through the mediation of the
authorities and organs of State Security. In relation to such it was decided
that every year on the Sunday of Orthodoxy ANATHEMA should be proclaimed, using
the following text: ‘If any bishops, making use of secular bosses
[“nachal’nikov], have seized power in the Church of God and enslaved Her, let
those and those who aid them and those who communicate with them without paying
heed to the reproaches of the Law of God, be ANATHEMA.”[1]