The History Of The True Orthodox Christians In The 20th Century - Part I
1904 
The Greek, Russian, and Romanian Orthodox Churches condemn
the
Gregorian New Calendar
of 1582 AD.
1909 
Meletios Metaxakis becomes a Free Mason reaching the 33rd degree.
1910
The Ecumenical Movement begins in Edinburgh Scotland.
1915
The Armenian Genocide
October 1917
The
Bolshevik Revolution
1917-1918
Tzar
Nicholas abdicates. The Royal Family is murdered.
1917
The All Russian Council reestablishes the Patriarchate. Metropolitan Tikhon is elected .
1918
Metr. Vladimir of Kiev becomes the first
Martyr of the Communist Era in Russia.
February
1918 
The All Russian Council issues
an "Anathema" against the Bolsheviks.
November 1918 - Meletios IV Metaxakis enthroned as Abp of Athens.
November 1920
Patriarch Tikhon
issues UKAZ #362
establishing The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA).
January 1920
The Ecumenical Patriarchate
under Patriarchal locum tenens, Metropolitan Dorotheos of Prusa, issues the
Encyclical:
"To The
Churches Of Christ Wheresoever They May Be."
December 9 1922
Ataturk invades Smyrna and engages in whole sale
slaughter of Orthodox Christians while 27 Allied Warships look on. Turkish
forces set fire to Smyrna and destroy her. 1.5 million Orthodox Christians are
among the slaughtered and displaced.
January 1924
Metaxakis, by usurpation, uncanonically enthroned as "Ecumenical Patriarch" of
Constantinople.
March 1924
Church Of
Greece Abp Chrysostomos Papadopoulis
institutes The New Calendar. The Genuine Orthodox Christians
-"GOC" protest!”
March 1925
Patriarch Tikhon
is poisoned by the order of Lenin.
May 1926
Meletios Metaxakis) becomes the
Patriarch Of Alexandria and institutes the
“New Calendar".
June 1927
The Protestant
Conference On Faith And
Order convenes in Switzerland. Representatives from the Orthodox Christian
Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Serbia, Greece, Cyprus,
Romania, and Bulgaria attend.
July 29 1927
Metropolitan Sergios issues his “Declaration,” statingt “The joys of the Soviet Union are our joys, and its
sorrows are our
sorrows."
The History Of The True Orthodox Christians In The 20th Century - Part I
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