
Sergianism as an Ecclesiological Heresy
On July 16/29, 1927, the deputy of the locum tenens of Russian patriarchal throne, Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky), issued his infamous "Declaration", in which he more or less unconditionally placed the Russian Church in submission to the God-hating atheists, declaring the joys of the Soviet state to be the Church's joys and the State's sorrows – the Church's sorrows.









