Resolution on the Report on the Seraphim-Genadiyev “Sekachev” Catacomb Episcopate

Resolution on the Report on the Seraphim-Genadiyev “Sekachev” Catacomb Episcopate

The decision at the V All-Diaspora Council to receive the “Sekachev” group by chirotesia only was premature and unwarranted and countermanded the decision of the ROCA Synod of Bishops on August 2/15, 1990.

The “Sekachev” group did not provide any documents proving their chirotonia, therefore the said decision of the Synod from 1990 is still in effect and members of this episcopate must be received into the ROCA through chirotonia again and go through all the levels of the clerical orders.