This homepage is published by the Swedish Exarchate of the True (Old Calendar) Orthodox Church of Greece headed by His Eminence Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Fili, who is the leader of the so-called "Synod of Resistance". The Synod of Resistance maintains full communion with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (under Bishop Agathangel), The True (Old Calendar) Orthodox Church of Romania (under Metropolitan Vlasie), and the True (Old Calendar) Orthodox Church of Bulgaria (under Bishop Photii of Triaditza). Our Exarchate in Sweden has two parishes. One, St. Constantine and Helen with a consecrated church, is located two minutes walk from the subway in Vårberg, a suburb to Stockholm. There Vespers is served every Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock and the Divine Liturgy, preceded by the appointed services from the Horologion, at 10 o'clock on Sunday morning. For more information talk to Bishop Johannes of Makarioupolis on 08-978958.

The Swedish exarchate's second parish is located in Uppsala dedicated to the Dormition there services are hold on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 18.00 and on Sundays at 09.00 through out the year. The Divine Liturgy is served every second week. For more information talk to Father Anders Åkerström on 018-127726.

The Swedish Exarchate also maintains one small Convent located in Villberga (Grillby) just outside the town of Enköping. The Convent is dedicated to St. Philothei of Athens and is a metochion to a larger convent in Greece, Holy Angels in Afidni, Attikis. Most services in the convent are not public. Every second Saturday the Divine Liturgy is celebrated at half past 6 o'clock in the morning. The Divine Liturgy is also celebrated on the Great Feasts of the Church. If a feast falls on a weekday it is celebrated on the evening before as an Agrypnia which start at 10 o'clock in the evening. For more information talk to Father Anders Åkerström on 018-127726.

Distinguishing characteristics of the Holy Synod in Resistance

The Holy Synod in Resistance, which has its Headquarters in Greece, with the help of God, shepherds those pious Orthodox Christians who are, first and foremost, opposed to ecumenism, that is, who have been out of Mysteriological (Sacramental) communion since 1924 with the so-called “official” Churches that participate in the ecumenical movement, since they (the Old Calendarist Faithful) regard ecumenism as an ecclesiological heresy and the New Calendar as a reprehensible innovation.

 The task of the Holy Synod in Resistance is fundamentally unitive, since its aim is to inform the Faithful about the heretical character of the ecumenical movement, so as to awaken the synodal conscience of the Orthodox Church to convene a unifying general Synod, in the truth of the Faith, with a view to condemning the heresy of ecumenism and restoring the unity of the Orthodox in the Festal Calendar.