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:Because of successive blankings (without explanation), I'm protecting this article for the time being. People may make suggestions on the talk page. Thanks {{User:FrJohn/sig}}
 
With all due respect, this protection is unfair. Every Old Calendarist jurisdiction on this Wiki (a) has a clarificiation stating that they are not in communion with official Orthodoxy and (b) is open to criticism and does not require protection. HOCNA certainly doesn't require protection; its leaders are as open to question as any other Old Calendarist group. This block will give the unintended appearance of favor. As someone who cleans up "soi-disant" off of Bishops from jurisdictions not my own, this gives HOCNA a "quasi-official" status on the Wiki. They have no listed history, and thus do not have to explain the fairly recent genesis of their Church (1986) as has every other Old Calendarist synod on the Wiki.--[[User:JosephSuaiden|JosephSuaiden]] 23:49, December 18, 2008 (UTC)
 
: I've unprotected the article.
 
: If you check the article's history, you'll note that the protection was not due to anything in particular about HOCNA, but because someone kept blanking the article out entirely in edit-warring fashion. Anyway, let's hope things have settled down. &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]] <font face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">('''[[User:ASDamick/Wiki-philosophy|THINK!]]''')</font></small> 02:06, December 19, 2008 (UTC)
==Edits==
see [http://www.sspp-tucson.org/aboutus.html this page]: a listing of parishes outside North America. --{{User:Pistevo/sig}} 09:44, May 7, 2006 (CDT)
Just a quick note: the website for the HOCNA Diocese of Boston should be http://www.homb.org/ hocna.net is not an official URL{{unsigned|Mlvezie}}
:Well, please change it for us. A wiki is a collaborative effort. Oh, and please sign your talk page messages with four tildes (4 ~s), because I almost thought your message was written by Pistevo for a second. Thanks. [[User:Gabriela|Gabriela]] 22:52, October 29, 2006 (CST)
I'll post (and prob. unblock the article) when these are complete. For now, I'm reworking it bit by bit as time allows... — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk])
 
== Incomplete History ==
 
This article should include the agreed upon facts of how HOCNA came into being -- namely, that they departed ROCOR after several of their leaders were charged with sexual immorality. They denied the claims, and claimed that they were being persecuted by the modernists and Ecumenists in ROCOR... such as Metropolitan Vitaly, and they left while these people were under suspension, prior to an ecclesiastical trial. There have also been about 20 former monastics from HTM, who have made essentially the same accusations.
 
They also went under two bishops who were not part of any Synod. They then left them, and went under Archbishop Auxentios, who had been deposed by his own Synod, and then they left his successor, and have now formed their own Synod... having finally gotten enough of their own folks elected bishops.
 
Now obviously, this article should be written in such a way as to say the above while providing their spin on how these things came to be... but they cannot and do not deny the basic facts above.
 
It is also worth noting that their history of the Old Calendar Church of Greece ends just prior to another wave of departures from HTM, with fresh accusations that parallel the original group of accusers.
 
-Fr. John Whiteford
 
: I'm not sure if [[User:FrJohn|FrJohn]] plans to unprotect this article any time soon, but I certainly don't see why you or someone else couldn't post proposed texts here on the Talk page.
 
: It's tough to have OrthodoxWiki articles on groups like these, since they're such flashpoints. But we do at least have the advantage here of explicitly holding to what we call the [[OW:MCB|Mainstream Chalcedonian Bias]], i.e., that we do have a specific point of view which overrides pure academic neutrality. (We try to be as neutral as possible, of course, but we're also not shy about our bias.) &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 17:18, March 19, 2007 (PDT)
 
Hi Fathers, I'm working on it... slowly, and on the back burner. I've got a couple versions stored up on my computer, and there's an attempt at a history being made on Wikipedia now. I can't substantiate or un-substantiate any claims made - I just don't have the time for a "full" investigation, and perhaps it's not my place anyway. My idea here is to provide an overview of the different versions of the story, and refer people elsewhere for more commentary. — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk])
 
This article originally had the history, to which Fr John Whiteford alludes above. Then it got vandalized. Is there a way we can bring back at least some of the history I wrote? If it's too anti-Hocna, then we can include their spin on it. But the current article has no history whatsoever. It also does not state what HOCNA is, that it does not maintain communion with any jurisdiction, that their clergy have been deposed on multiple occasions and by several different "Synods", and that several dozen people have made accusation of sexual impropriety against the HOCNA leadership.--[[User:Aleks|Aleks]] 18:18, June 19, 2008 (UTC)
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