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  An Open Letter to the Clergy and Faithful of the God-Protected Diocese of Alaska

Diocese of Alaska
March 10, 2008

http://dioceseofalaska.org/

Bishop Nikolai said in part, "You have received instructions (albeit through Internet postings and newspaper reports) from His Beatitude Metropolitan Herman to cease the commemoration of your Bishop in the Divine Liturgy.

All of this has been done without a meeting of the synod, with no formal charges addressed to me, and without the canons of the Church being observed. Nevertheless, I have been ordered to take a mandatory leave of absence and to summarily vacate the Diocese. This have no illusions about this is an ecclesiastical punishment without trial and that is nothing less than the rejection of Church discipline for some cause other than the integrity of our Lords Church. If you comply with the innovations presented to you by Metropolitan Herman, you will severely wound the very Church which you so highly prize."

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