They also agreed to lift the anathemas and condemnations of the past. In the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia anathemas were added against modernism and ecumenism. Excoriatory polemics were printed and anathemas declared in the entire region. Some authorities believe that the anathemas belong to an earlier local synod. Cyril of Alexandria issued twelve anathemas against Nestorius in 431. The "official" nature of the anathemas was reiterated subsequently. The Anathemas of Cyril and Two Books to Parthenius were criticized. The anathemas such as these reflected the very intense feelings that divided Greece by 1916.