+Subdeaconate+

TO SWITCH TO ENGLISH: 1. Right click on the following link, and in the drop-down menu choose "Open in New Tab" http://vkontakte.ru/?lang=3 2. After the new tab fully loads, close it. 3. Switch back to this tab (if it is not the active tab already), and then refresh the page (usually F5). This is an English analogue of the Russian group +иподиаконат+ (http://vkontakte.ru/club1010446), but has a different set of Rules. This Group has a branch on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9857719795. This Group is for subdeacons of Autocephalous and Autonomous Orthodox Churches (see here http://orthodoxwiki.org/Autocephaly) and ancient Orthodox Churches, and for all those with lutirgical obediences, pertaining to the episcopal service (e.g. book-holders, fan-carriers and mace-carriers). OVERVIEW: The Group has honourable, full and associate members. Associate members can participate in discussion boards, upload and discuss content and vote in opinion polls. Full members (who are not under a caution - see below about this) and honourable members can also vote in elections and referendums. Only full and honourable members can be officers. To be a full or honourable member, you have to be in communion with one of the canonical jurisdictions below, and for a full membership additionally participate in the "Official Calendar of Subdeacons" (http://vkontakte.ru/photos.php?act=album&id=51039909) for the duration of your full membership. To be an associate member have to be in communion with an Orthodox Church (including Eastern Orthodox Churches) and to participate in the "Unofficial Calendar of Subdeacons" (http://vkontakte.ru/photos.php?act=album&id=51040331) for the duration of your associate membership. Canonical jurisdictions: (http://orthodoxwiki.org/List_of_Patriarchs http://orthodoxwiki.org/List_of_autocephalous_and_autonomous_Churches) Autocephalous Churches: His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch (ECU) His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa (ALE) His Beatitude Ignatius IV, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East (ANT) His Beatitude Theophilus III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine (JER) His Holiness Kirill I, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' (ROC) His Holiness Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi (GEO) His Holiness Pavel, Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia (SOC) His Beatitude, Daniel, Patriarch of All Romania, Metropolitan of Ungro-Vlachia, Archbishop of Bucharest (ROM) His Holiness Maksim, Patriarch of Bulgaria, Metropolitan of Sofia (BOC) His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus (CYP) His Beatitude Ieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece (GOC) His Beatitude Sawa, Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland (POC) His Beatitude Christopher, Archbishop of Prague, Metropolitan of the Czech Lands and Slovakia (COC) His Beatitude Herman, Archbishop of Washington and New York, Metropolitan of All America and Canada (OCA) Autonomous Churches: His Beatitude Damian, Archbishop of Sinai, Farum and Raithu (SIN) His Eminence Leo, Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland (FOC) His Eminence Daniel, Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan (JOC) His Beatitude Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine (UOC) His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCa) RULES: http://vkontakte.ru/board.php?act=topic&tid=9006347 MEMBERS: http://vkontakte.ru/board.php?act=topic&tid=9022771