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The church was inaugurated when the city was already part of Greece, on 21 April 1914 by Metropolitan Gennadios (1912–1951). As the old St. Demetrios Cathedral was now a Christian church again, [6] the new metropolitan church was dedicated to St. Gregory Palamas instead of St. Demetrios.
Interior of the Church of St. Gregory Palamas in Thessaloniki The reliquary of St. Gregory Palamas Palamas's opponents in the hesychast controversy spread slanderous accusations against him, and in 1344 Patriarch John XIV imprisoned him for four years.
According to Carlton, Palamas's teachings express an Orthodox tradition that long preceded Palamas, and "Roman Catholic thinkers" coined the term "Palamism" in order to "justify their own heresy by giving what is the undoubted and traditional teaching of the Orthodox Church an exotic label, turning it into an historically conditioned 'ism'". [88]
In these works, St. Gregory Palamas uses a distinction, already found in the 4th century in the works of the Cappadocian Fathers, between the energies or operations (Gr. energeiai) of God and the essence of God. St. Gregory taught that the energies or operations of God were uncreated. He taught that the essence of God can never be known by his ...
However, in 1351, at a synod under the presidency of Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos, Palamas' real Essence-Energies distinction was established as the doctrine of the Orthodox Church. Gregory Akindynos , who had been a disciple of Gregory and had tried to mediate between him and Barlaam, became critical of Palamas after Barlaam's departure in 1341.
The Eastern doctrine of "uncreated light" has not been officially accepted in the Catholic Church, which likewise has not officially condemned it. Increasing parts of the Western Church consider Gregory Palamas a saint, even if uncanonized. [18] "Several Western scholars contend that the teaching of St. Gregory Palamas himself is compatible ...
The addition of the Filioque to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed has been condemned as heretical by many important Fathers and saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church, including Photios I of Constantinople, Gregory Palamas and Mark of Ephesus, sometimes referred to as the Three Pillars of Orthodoxy.
Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece. Monastery of the Holy Ascension, Woodstock, New York. Metropolitan Demetrios. St. Gregory Palamas Monastery, Etna, California. Abbot Archimandrite Akakios; St. John of San Francisco Orthodox Monastery, Cobleskill, New York. Abbot Metropolitan Demetrios