Old Calendarists

Old Calendarists are a diminishing presence and number a few thousand followers.

There is a decades long controversy between them and other Old Calendarists.

They themselves have suffered several schisms, and not all Old Calendarists comprise one Church.

Greek Old Calendarists adhere to traditional Greek Orthodox practices.

In the present day, there are three major Old Calendarists divisions present in Greece, all of which have parishes in many other countries.

But that change was never accepted in Russia or in several other countries and in Greece even produced a schism of "Old Calendarists."

Some tensions exist in the philosophical differences between the New Calendarists and the Moderate Old Calendarists.

Those who refused to adopt this change are known as Old Calendarists ('palaioimerologites' in Greek) and still follow the old Julian Calendar.

Old Calendarists are groups that do not maintain communion with the 14 (15) autocephalous churches as a result of the use of the Revised Julian Calendar.

The Bishop Antonio has sought fellowship with Greek Old Calendarists and the Bulgarian Alternative Synod.

Some Old Calendarists maintain that they have "walled themselves off" from larger Orthodox jurisdictions to protect Orthodoxy from heretical innovations in practices and doctrine.

Greek Old Calendarists also claim that the teachings of the Seven Ecumenical Councils forbid changing the church calendar through abandonment of the Julian calendar.

This was opposed by various groups of Old calendarists, especially in Moldavia, where Metropolitan Gurie Grosu of Bessarabia refused to accept the orders given by the Patriarchy.

Other than the calendar issue, Old Calendarists generally maintain the rites and beliefs of the Church of Greece, although there are other important differences on Baptism and the Oriental Orthodoxy.

The "Old Calendarists" (who are also sometimes styled "Old Calendar") are to be distinguished from Orthodox Christians or Orthodox Church bodies which are on the Old Calendar.

It has not been adopted by the Orthodox churches of Jerusalem, Russia, Serbia (including the uncanonical Macedonian Orthodox Church), Georgia, Mount Athos and the Greek Old Calendarists.

September 27 - Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar; A celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek Police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists.

It does not deny that New Calendarist bodies or Orthodox involved in the ecumenical movement are with Grace, as do the other Old Calendarists in Greece, but considers them to be ailing and in error.

From a spiritual perspective, Old Calendarists also point to a number of miraculous occurrences which occur on the Old Calendar exclusively, such as the "descent of the cloud on the mount" on the feast of the Transfiguration.

Then he converted to Orthodoxy and in 1986 he became bishop of Aprilia and Latium under the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Fili, a leader of Greek Old Calendarists movement.

In 1986, Holy Transfiguration Monaster of Boston severed its ties with ROCOR and placed itself under the omophorion of Metropolitans Gabriel of the Cyclades and Akakios of Diavleia of the Greek Old Calendarists.

The Orthodox Churches of Jerusalem, Russia, Serbia, Macedonia, Georgia, Ukraine, and the Greek Old Calendarists and other groups continue to use the Julian calendar, thus they celebrate the Nativity on 25 December Julian (which is 7 January Gregorian until 2100).