The Anathemas of the Sunday of Orthodoxy

At the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy, after the dismissal, the clergy and servers come forth to the base of
the solia, bearing ikons. The protos with the Cross remains on the amvon.
(This Service can be performed without a Bishop)
The Protodeacon begins thus:

Who is so great a God as our God? Thou art the God who doeth wonders!
He repeateth the same three (3) times, in a progressively louder voice. Then he readeth the following

Celebrating today the Triumph of orthodoxy, O ye people, let us glorify above all our good God, who is blessed forever. This, our
God, having taken thought for and established His beloved inheritance, the Holy Church, and having comforted with His true
word our forebears who fell away through our transgression, hath set our foundation in paradise. This, our God, directing man
toward His promise of salvation, let not Hmself bereft of witness, but, proclaimed the salvation which was to come, first through
the forefathers and prophets, presenting it by diverse images. This is our God, who by the prophets of old spoke to the fathers very
often and in diverse ways, and in these latter days has spoken to us in the SON, by whom time was created, who announced the
good pleasure of the Father for us, disclosed the mysteries of heaven, comfirmed the truth of the glad tidings by the power of the
Holy Spirit, sent the Apostles throughout the whole world to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom, and comfirmed it with diverse
powers and wonders. Following this saving revelation and holding fast to the good tidings thereof, we confess that:

WE believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible:
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-begotten, Begotten of the Father before all ages, Light of Light,
True God of True God, Begotten, not made; of one essence with the Father, by whom all things were made: Who for us
men and for our salvation came down from the heavens, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and
became man; And was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried; And rose again on the third
day, according to the Scriptures; And ascended into the heavens, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father; And shall
come again, with glory, to judge both the living and the dead, Whose kingdom shall have no end. And in the Holy
Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life, Who proceedeth from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son together is
worshiped and glorified, Who spake by the Prophets; In One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I Confess one
Baptism for the remission of sins. I look for the Resurrection of the dead, And the life of the world to come
Choir: AMEN!

And he Chanteth:
This is the Faith of the Apostles! This is the Faith of the Fathers! This is the ORTHODOX (Catholic) Faith! (This is the
Faith of the Orthodox) This Faith has established the Universe (or the whole world)!
Furthermore, we accept and affirm the councils of the Holy Fathers (which number 7 in all), and their traditions and
writings with one accord with divine revelation. And though the enemies of Orthodoxy oppose this providence of the
Lord and saving revelation, yet has the Lord been midful of the reproaches of His servants; for He hath mocked them
that blaspheme his glory and hath affronted the audacious enemies of Orthodoxy and put them to flight.
Therefore, as we bless and praise those who obey the divine revelation and confirm their will to it, so do we cut off and
give over to ANATHEMA those who oppose this Truth, if while the Lord awaited their return and repentance, they
did not repent; and in this we follow the sacred tradition of the early church, holding fast to her traditions.
Start in a Comfortably Low voice:
TO those who reject the existence of God and maintain this, His world is self-existent, and that everything therein
came into being by chance, and not by the providence of God, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO those who say that God is not spirit, but flesh, or that he is just not full of tender mercy, most-wise and allknowing, and utter similar blasphemies, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO those who dare say that the Son of God is not of one substance and equal in honor with the Father, and that neither

is the Holy Spirit, and who profess that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are not One God, ANATHEMA (X3)
half step up In volume
TO those who irrationally say that the coming of the Son of God into the world in the flesh, and His voluntary
suffering, death and resurrection were not necessary for our salvation and for the cleansing of sins, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO those who do not accept the grace of redemption proclaimed by the Gospel as our sole means for justification
before God, Anathema! (X3)
TO those who dare to say that the most pure Virgin Mary was not Virgin before giving birth, during birthgiving, and
after birthgiving, ANATHEMA! (X3) half step up in volume
TO those who do not believe that the Holy Spirit made wise the prophets and the Apostles, and through them hath
proclaimed to us the true path to everlasting salvation and confirmed this with miracles, and now dwelleth in the
hearts of true and faithful Christians and instructeth them in every truth, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO those who deny the immortality of the soul, the end of time, the future judgement, and everlasting reward in the
heavens for virtue and condemnation for sin, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO those who reject all Holy Mysteries held by the Church of Christ, ANATHEMA! (X3) half step up in volume
TO those who reject the councils (which number 7) of the Holy Fathers and their Traditions, which are in accord with
divine revelations and are kept piously by the Orthodox Catholic Church, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO those who reason that Orthodox Sovereigns are elevated to their thrones not by Gods special good will for them,
and that gifts of the Holy Spirit are not poured out upon them during their anointing for the conduct of this great
calling; and who likewise dare to rise up against them in Mutiny and Rebellious disorder, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO those who mock and profane the Holy Images (IKONS/ICONS) and Relics, which the HOLY CHURCH affirms to
be revelations of Gods work and of His Chosen ones, to inspire those who gaze upon them with piety to emulate
them; and who dare to say that they are fond things, vainly invented, and are grounded upon no warranty of
scripture, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO the Theosophists and other heretics who dare to say and irrationally teach that our Lord Jesus Christ did not
descend to earth and become incarnate once only, but hath been incarnate many times; and who likewise deny that the
true Wisdom of the Father is His only Beotten Son, and, contrary to divine Scripture and the teaching of the holy
fathers, seek other wisdoms, ANATHEMA! (x3)
TO the masons, followers of the occult, spiritualists, wizards, and all who do not believe in the one God, but honor the
demons,or who do not humbly give their lives over to God, but strive to learn the future through sorcery,
ANATHEMA! (X3) half step up in volume
TO the persecutors of the Church of Christ, impious apostates, and, proselytizing wolves who, seek to lead the faithful
away from the Church, and lifted their hands against the anointed of God, who slay His sacred ministers, who profane
the holy things, who destroy the temples of God, who subject our brethren to Inquisition, Conversion, peaceable or
otherwise, and have defiled our Orthodox Christian Homelands, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO the truly non-existent and fallen Arch-Heretic Pope and Patriarch of Old Rome Francis, And Any future Pope that
comes after Him, and those in Communion with Him, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO the Protestant Innovators who rebelled against the Papacy, But, failed to Unite with the Orthodox Church, John
Wesley, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Henry Zwingli, Henry VIII the Impious king, And those with them, and all
heretical and offshoots of the Protestant Reformation, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO Those who deny and rebuke the Panagia, The Con-substantial, Indivisible and Life-Giving Trinity, The Rabbi's of
Judaism, The Islamists, The Anonymous Tracts of the Watchtower Society, The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of
Latter Day Saints, also known as the Mormons, ANATHEMA! (X3)
"To them who reject the teachings which were pronounced for the establishment of the true doctrines of the Church of

God by the Holy Fathers Athanasios, Cyril, Ambrose, Amphilochios the God-proclaiming, Leo the most holy
Archbishop of Old Rome, and by all the others, and furthermore, who do not embrace the Acts of the Ecumenical
Councils, especially those of the Fourth, I say, and of the Sixth,
Anathema!" (3x)
TO those who deny the Holy 4 th, 5th , 6th, and 7th Ecumenical Councils, The Monophysites, Monothelites, Armenians
and Monergists, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO Those who teach, preach [and actively participate in] the Pan-heresy of Inter-Christian and Inter-Religious
Syncretistic Ecumenism, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO those who attack the Church of Christ by teaching that Christs Church is divided into so-called branches which
differ in doctrine and way of life, or Lungs, or that the Church does not exist visibly but will be formed in the future,
when all branches or sects or denominations, and even religions, will be united into one body; and who do not
distinguish the priesthood and holy mysteries of the Church from those of Heretics, but say that the baptism and
eucharist of heretics is effectual for salvation; therefore, TO those who knowingly have communion with these
aforementioned heretics or who advocate, disseminate or defined their new heresy, commonly called ecumenism or
the Pan-Heresy of Ecumenism, under the pretext of brotherly love or the supposed unification of separated Christians,
ANATHEMA! (X3)

Anathemas Against the Heresy of Ecumenism

To the ecumenical so-called Branch Theory, according to which the Church of Christ consists of many separated
denominations (schisms): Anathema! Anathema likewise to those who preach this false doctrine, share it, accept it, or
are indifferent to it. For thereby they deny the uniqueness of the Church of Christ as expressed in the ninth article of
the Nicene Symbol of Faith: "I believe in One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church".
To the dogmatic Constitutional Basis of that heretical assembly, the World Council of Churches, which declares that:
"The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour
according to the Scriptures and therefore seek to fulfill together their common calling to the glory of the one God,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit", and to those who consider a general confession of belief in Christ according to the
Scriptures as sufficient for unity, there by totally denying Holy Tradition, and who at the same time recognize the
various heretical assemblies as Churches of God, and consider their heretical doctrines to be based on Holy Scripture,
rather than as false and willful interpretations (which is the very essence of heresy): Anathema!
To the ecumenical doctrine which recognizes the assemblies of the heretics as grace-bearing and possessing
uninterrupted Apostolic Succession, and which considers possible a "union" between the Orthodox and Non-Orthodox
Churches without a unity in Faith, or based on the concept of so-called doctrinal minimum, which has been openly
proclaimed at the various ecumenistic gatherings and expressed in official documents: Anathema!
To the documents adopted as a result of the "theological" dialogue held between the Orthodox and Monophysites, in
which both are recognized as Orthodox, and the Monophysites' Christological heresy is declared to be Orthodox
doctrine, where by the Forth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon is rejected and condemned, and all subsequent
Ecumenical Councils are ignored: Anathema!
To the documents adopted as a result of the "theological" dialogue between the pseudo-Orthodox and the Papists, in
particular the so-called Balamand Unia (1993), which refers to the Papist assembly as a "Sister Church", and which
declares that it possesses grace and uninterrupted Apostolic Succession, that its sacraments are true, and which forbids
proselytizing (i.e., the conversion from the Papal error to the saving faith of the Orthodox Church): Anathema!
To those who unlawfully "lifted" the Anathemas placed on the Papist assembly in 1054, and to those who did not resist
this lawlessness and by this very act placed themselves in opposition to the Holy and Great Synods held in
Constantinople (in 1341, 1347, and 1351) which condemned the Papal innovation, and likewise to those who do not

consider Papism to be a heresy and who consider ecclesiastical union with the Latin heretics to be admissible:
Anathema!
To the agreement reached in Antioch in 1991, as a result of which the Orthodox Church of Antioch entered into full
ecclesiastical union with the Syrian Monophysites, the Jacobites: Anathema! Anathema to all those who do not
consider Monophysites to be heretics and who do not avoid prayerful and Eucharistic communion with them. For they
have all been anathematized by the 630 Holy Fathers present at the Fourth Ecumenical Council held in Chalcedon, and
remain under ban now and in the age to come.
To the so-called New Style, which appeared as a result of the introduction of the Papal Gregorian Calendar into the
Orthodox Church, and which is totally inadmissible canonically, and constitutes a dogmatic-ecclesiological heresy
inasmuch as it rejects the holy doctrines, Tradition, and liturgical unity of the Church, as well as the ninth article of the
Nicene Symbol of Faith: "I believe in One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church": Anathema! The Papal Calendar has
already been condemned by Canon I of the Local Council of Antioch and by the Local Councils of Constantinople (in
1583, 1587, and 1598).
"Whosoever does not follow the customs of the Church which the seven Holy Ecumenical Councils have decreed, and
the Holy Pascha and calendar which they have enacted well for us to follow, but wants to follow the newly-invented
Paschalion and the new calendar of the atheist astronomers of the Pope, and, opposing them, wishes to overthrow and
destroy the doctrines and customs of the Church which we have inherited from our Fathers, let any such have the
anathema and let him be outside of the Church and the Assembly of the Faithful.
"We exhort all pious and Orthodox Christians: remain in those things which you learned and in which you were born
and bred, and when the times and circumstances call for it, shed your very blood in order both to keep the Faith given
us by our Fathers and to keep your confession."
Jeremias II, Patriarch of Constantinople Silvester, Patriarch of Alexandria Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem and the
rest of the Bishops of the Synod who were present (Constantinople, 1583)
To those who flouted the resolutions of the aforementioned Councils condemning and banning the Gregorian
Paschalion and calendar, and who willfully, treacherously, and forcibly introduced this novelty into the Church, or
who support the New Style and attempt to establish it in the Church or are unscrupulous and indifferent in their
relations with the excommunicated adherents of the New Style, and who do not wish to severe ecclesiastical union
with them: Anathema! Let them read again the words of the Anathema pronounced by His Holiness, Cyril V, Patriarch
of Constantinople upon the innovators in his "Sigillion" of 1756.
To the heretical and blasphemous ecumenistic "liturgies" (e.g., thenso-called Lima Liturgy) in which "members of the
Orthodox Church" participate, likewise to the common services during which Orthodox Christians pray together with
heretics and take part in various "sacred rites", whereby abomination is introduced into the Church, and in violation of
the Tenth, Forty-fifth, and Eighty-fifth Apostolic Canons and Canon Thirty-three of the Local Council of Laodicea:
Anathema! Anathema also to those who give the Body and Blood of Christ to the heretics, or who receive their false
"communion" from them. Anathema to those who serve other ecclesiastical Mysteries for the heretics, or participate in
their "sacraments".
To those who pray with pagans, shamans, magicians, priests and wizards of heathen cults, and to those who join in
their meditation sessions and cultic rituals, or who conduct "divine services" at their "altars", and to all the participants
in the various Pan-ecumenical Sundays: Anathema!
To all the other heretical doctrines and documents of the ecumenists which were jointly prepared by them and which
they now seek to secretly and stealthily introduce into the Church: Anathema!
To those who do not reverence the dogmatic and canonical teachings of the Orthodox Church, Her Holy Tradition and
practices, and who attempt to introduce the spirit of Renovationism into the Church of Christ: Anathema!

To those who sympathize with the aforementioned and anathematized doctrines and acts, and who attempt to defend
and justify them, or who assume an attitude of lukewarm indifference towards them: Anathema!
To all the heresies and heretics anathematized by the Ecumenical and Local Councils, we, together with the Holy
Fathers, proclaim: Anathema!
Anathema to all heretics! Anathema! Anathema!
TO Those who believe that the Holy Church is Divided into Branches or Lungs [and other body parts] or other such
blasphemies, ANATHEMA! (X3)
TO those who teach that Judaism is some kind of elder brother to Our precious Christian Orthodox faith, or who teach
That there is a concept called Judeo-Christianity, ANATHEMA! (X3)
To those who undertake Hellenic Pagan studies also known as Hellenic neo-Paganism (Dodekatheonismos) not only
for purposes of education but also follow after their vain opinions and ritualistic practices, and are so thoroughly
convinced of their truth and validity that they shamelessly introduce them and teach them to others, sometimes
secretly and sometimes openly, ANATHEMA (x3)
To those who believe, that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948,
is in accordance with Biblical prophecy. (Christian Zionists, Dispensationalists, Darbyites, Christians United for IsraelFie!, and other such Protestant Cults), ANATHEMA (x3)
To those who deny that the Orthodox Catholic Church of Christ is the New Israel, and that the Old Israel of the
Pharisees, Sadducees and the Temple of Jerusalem have fallen away, and do not make up the Israel of God.And, as a
result have forfeited their rights to the Holy Land/Palestine. ANATHEMA (x3)
From old Rome have come certain persons who learned there to wear Latin habits. The worst of it is how, from being
Romans of Rumelia (Roumelia, Roumeli) bred and born, they not only have changed their faith, but they even wage
war upon the Orthodox dogmas and truths of the Eastern Church which have been delivered to us by Christ and the
divine Apostles and the Holy Councils (or Synods) of the Holy Fathers. Therefore, cutting off these persons as rotten
members, we command:
That whoever does not confess with heart and mouth that he is a child of the Eastern Church baptized in Orthodox
style, and that the Holy Spirit proceeds out of only the Father, essentially and hypostatically, as Christ says in the
Gospel, shall be outside of our Church and shall be anathematized. That whoever does not confess that at the Mystery
of Holy Communion the laity must also partake of both kinds, of the Precious Body and Blood, but instead says that
he will partake only of the body, and that that is sufficient because therein is both flesh and blood, when as a matter of
fact Christ said and administered each separately, and they who fail to keep such customs, let all such persons be
anathematized. ANATHEMA (x3)
That whoever says that our Lord Jesus Christ at the Mystic Supper had unleavened bread (made without yeast), like
that of the Jews, and not leavened bread, that is to say, bread raised with yeast, let him depart far away from us and let
him be anathema as one having Jewish views and those of Apolinarios and bringing dogmas of the Armenians into
our Church, on which account let him be doubly anathema. ANATHEMA (x3)
Whoever says that our Christ and God, when He comes to judge us, does not come to judge souls together with
bodies, or embodied souls, but instead comes to sentence only bodies, let him be anathema. ANATHEMA (x3)
Whoever says that the souls of Christians who repented while in the world but failed to perform their penance go to a
purgatory of fire when they die, where there is flame and punishment, and are purified, which is simply an ancient
Greek myth, and those who, like Origen, think that hell is not everlasting, and thereby afford or offer the liberty or

incentive to sin, let him and all such persons be anathema. ANATHEMA (x3)
That whoever says that the Pope is the head of the Church, and not Christ, and that he has authority to admit persons
to Paradise with his letters of indulgence or other passports, and can forgive sins as many as a person may commit if
such person pay money to receive from him indulgences, i.e., licenses to sin, let every such person be anathema.
ANATHEMA (x3)
That whoever does not follow the customs of the Church as the Seven Holy Ecumenical Councils decreed, and Holy
Pascha, and the Menologion with which they did well in making it a law that we should follow it, and wishes to follow
the newly-invented Paschalion and the New Menologion of the atheist astronomers of the Pope, and opposes all those
things and wishes to overthrow and destroy the dogmas and customs of the Church which have been handed down
by our fathers, let him suffer anathema and be put out of the Church of Christ and out of the Congregation of the
Faithful. ANATHEMA (x3)
To those who fall away from the Holy Orthodox Catholic Faith, embracing false doctrines, dogmas or heresies, to the
scandal of our brethren, ANTHEMA (x3)
CHOIR: ANATHEMA, ANATHEMA, ANATHEMA!!! End like the reading of an Epistle
DEACON: And celebrating the annual commemoration of all who, by word, writing, teaching, suffering and pious life
have contended for Orthodoxy as its defenders and allies, The Church of the Christ doth exclaim:
TO All the Holy and Right-Believing rulers throughout the World, to rulers of this nation, its civil authorities, and
armed forces fallen asleep in the Lord, MEMORY ETERNAL!
TO the Blessed and Ever-Memorable Patriarch/Metropolitans/Archbishops/Bishops of National Church, Diocese, their,
Eminences (N/N and N), MEMORY ETERNAL!
TO those who suffered and were slain in various ways for the Orthodox Faith, and all Orthodox Christians who have
fallen asleep in true faith in hope of the resurrection and life eternal, MEMORY ETERNAL!
CHOIR: MEMORY ETERNAL!
DEACON: The Orthodox Church of Christ, solemnly commemorating those who have contended in Piety, and urging
all her children to emulate this, likewise hath the duty to praise the struggles of those who now, preparing themselves
for eternal blessedness with saving faith and virtue, Confess Orthodoxy.
TO those who love Christian piety, the defenders and protectors of the Church of Christ, The Rulers of our Country its
leaders and civil authorities, and armed forces, grant, O Lord, a prosperous and peaceful life MANY YEARS!
TO the Entire Synod, national Church, Diocese (N), to Our Lord, The Most Blessed (N of a Hierarch of a National
Church or Diocese) and to Our Lord the Most Reverend N, Archbishop of Diocese X, MANY YEARS!
TO this land, to every Land wherein Christians do dwell; and to all Orthodox Christians who hold the saving Faith in
the Orthodox Manner and who submit to the law of Christ, Grant, O Lord a properous and peaceful Life MANY
YEARS!
CHOIR: MANY YEARS!
GLORY TO THEE, OUR GOD AND BENEFACTOR, UNTO THE AGES OF AGES.
AMEN. The faithful come up and venerate the Holy Cross and the icons held by the clergy and servers.
The Choir Chanteth the Te Deum Laudemus of Saint Ambrose of Milan
AMEN. GLORY TO GOD FOR ALL THINGS.
END Anathemas of Sunday of Orthodoxy