teaching is held by many bishops, priests, and laypeople, and by many of the monks of the influential monastic peninsula of Mount Athos, Greece. Elder Cleopa of Romania, now deceased, is very much loved and respected for his steadfastness as a Christian during the time the Communists controlled his country. He stated that Tradition “is unerring,” then added, “The Church lived the truth of the Gospel even before anything was committed to writing, having lived with the Holy Tradition from the outset.