A New Group Coming Home
- Reverend Fr Gregory Hallam
- Feb 19
- 2 min read
On Monday, 10 February 2025, His Eminence, Metropolitan Archbishop Silouan of the British Isles and Ireland made a pastoral visit to a community in Galloway, Scotland. This visit follows two years of intense and amicable consultation between an old calendarist diocese and the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland. With consultation prayerfully taken with clergy in the Antiochian Patriarchate outside of the British Isles, the decision was made to receive James Cavendish, together with clergy and the laity of his diocese into the Antiochian Orthodox Church.
On Monday evening, Vespers was celebrated by Fr Boniface Carroll in the church of Our Lady of Walsingham and St Ninian, in Dumfries. After which, Sayedna Silouan restored James Cavendish, together with two novice brothers, Br Ambrose and Br Ninian, into the canonical Orthodox Church by anointing with Holy Myrron.
On Tuesday, 11 February 2025, Orthros and a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy were served in the church of Our Lady of Walsingham and St Ninian. Together with Sayedna Silouan, the Liturgy was celebrated by Archimandrite Philip Hall, Fr David McCready, Fr Justin Slaughter Doty, Fr Boniface Carroll, Fr Dmitry Ismagilov, and Dcn Ephraim Haddad. During the Liturgy, Sayedna Silouan ordained Br James to the Holy Diaconate through the laying on of hands. After the Liturgy, Br Augustine was restored into the Orthodox Church by holy chrism. At the same time, Fr Justin Slaughter Doty, Fr David McCready, Fr Patrick Cardine, and Abbot Theodore of Ladyminster, visiting from the United States, presented Sayedna Silouan with an icon of St Raphael of Brooklyn in expression of brotherly affection between the Antiochian Archdiocese in North America and here in the British Isles.
Deacon James will be leading the services of Holy Typika and other reader services for the monks and laity in Galloway until the important and ongoing work of growing this newly planted mission can be continued.
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Too bad James was being a secret devious snake for two years. Instead of being honest, he lied through his teeth with Met. John and pretended all was good. Just as a relationship that began in infidelity will usually not last, I doubt this will.
There are Eastern Rite people in the areas of Galloway and Dumfries and the Borders who dd not have access to church. This will hopefully remedy the situation once all of the Clergy have been ordained and there is plenty of publicity.
Thank God! Will they be permitted to continue the use of the Western Rite?
When will services be held?