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Archbishop Leonty (+1971) and the Greek Old Calendarists [part 8]

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(Continue from  here ) From the cover of issue 402 of the official magazine of the True Orthodox of Greece "The Voice of Orthodoxy". Contains letters of Archbishop Leonty in which he defends himself against many slanders.  Defense of Archbishop Leonty and new maniacal attacks against him The accusations against Archbishop Leonty continued by the obsessed Fr. Kalliopios, who in his periodical slandered the Archbishop as supposedly "Latin-minded" and an "ecumenist". The occasion was an earlier (in 1959) visit of Archbishop Leonty, as a representative of the Russian community in Venezuela, to the funeral of some high-ranking state official, who also happened to be a high-ranking Roman Catholic cleric (as was their custom to hold political offices as well), in order to convey the condolences of the Russian community. A photograph depicting Archbishop Leonty reading the leaflet about the life and activity of the deceased, which was distributed at the funeral, w