Piraeus Seraphim: "Are Auxiliary Bishops irregular?"translated

Another Hierarch of the Church of Greece publicly takes a position on the issue of the election of Assistant Bishops, a few days before the regular convocation of the Hierarchy of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece. Specifically, in an official announcement of the Holy Metropolis of Piraeus under the title: 'Are the Auxiliary Bishops irregular?
It states in detail:
The king of virtues according to the God-bearing Father and according to the heavenly Apostle Paul is the "discernment of spirits", (1 Cor. 12, 10) gift and gift of the Holy Spirit to them unreservedly and truly "in the spirit of the Holy and Truth-Christ". (Jn. 4, 24) fighting the good fight and humbly seeking the grace and sanctification of the Holy God, rejecting the demonic audacity of ignorance that distorts and misinterprets things.
Those who invoke the existing canonical framework for the supposed irregularity of the Assistant Bishops, refer to unrelated Holy Canons, such as Canon VI of the Holy Fourth Ecumenical Synod, which applies exclusively and only to Elders and Deacons and not to Bishops as well as the eighth...



