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The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is pressuring Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece’s Mount Athos in an attempt to force them to recognize the non-canonic Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), vimaorthodoxias.gr reported on June 11.
According to the report, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I demanded explanations why a delegation of the OCU was rejected in Saint Panteleimon Monastery. The Greek media outlet added that Bartholomew I is openly supporting the OCU despite rejection of this non-canonic entity by most of the Orthodox world. The report added that Bartholomew I even threatened Saint Panteleimon Monastery with a kind of sanctions if such a situation repeats in the future.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is the only autocephalous church that recognized the OCU. It provided the OCU, created from two non-canonical churches: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, with a tomos of autocephaly in January 2019.
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This move, endorsed by the US, has de-facto isolated the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople from the rest of the autocephalous Orthodox churches. At the same time, the US is using Bartholomew I in the framework of its campaign to support a network of non-canonical churches in the Balkans. In all these cases, shismatic groups appear to be a bargaining chip in the global geopolitical standoff. In Ukraine, the OCU was used in an attempt to fuel anti-Russian tensions in the Ukrainian society. In the Balkans, the dissolution of the canonic Orthodox Chruch is seen by the globalists as one of the tools to supress the remaining resistance to their influence in the region.
However, despite all these efforts by Bartholomew I to support the OCU, the new Ukrainian ‘independent church, appeared to be a very fragile entity. On June 11, Patriarch Filaret, the head of the non-canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate and the honorary Patriarch of the OCU. The position of Filaret is a result of the fierce power struggle between him and Metropolitan Epiphany, the current formal head of the OCU.
So, Filaret is now working to de-facto separate the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate from the OCU and accusing Constantinople of tricking the Ukrainians. Filaret has recently announced that he’s preparing a meeting of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate that would re-establish an entity independent from Constantinople and the Russian Orthodox Church (the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is an autonomous church within the Moscow Patriarchate). Therefore, the OCU project may fully collapse in the nearest future.
All part of the plan.
They first convert them all to Christian Zionism. Behind the destruction of the Orthodox Christian church is the usual Jew, Pyatt. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7003c4b2eeb5d68729d7540579c6df9142d15499192b2c2589f159a0afe03fa5.jpg
He who controls God controls the uneducated masses.
Owning God is what made America great.
Sinbad, I have college diploma and some international certificates. You can’t call me uneducated, for sure. But I am the Orthodox Christian. The Orthodox Christianity, in fact, is the religion for educated and experienced people. If you want to find some more info, just look here:
https://alexey-osipov.ru/translations/en/
Can tell you just my personal experience. I were convinced liberal, the real liberal, not like millennial snowflakes. I read Soros, von Hayek, Attali etc. But I had an immense emptiness in my heart. And when I entered the Orthodox Church approx 15 years ago, I got the cure. Nobody can describe you how it feels like, unless you have your own experience. If you’re curious enough, just try to enter the temple of Russian Orthodox Church and maybe you will feel how your passions are calming down. Just my suggestion – you don’t have to follow.
Making my case against organized religion better than I could ever do myself. The faithful on all sides see elderly bearded clowns trading their immortal souls in bulk, without of course ever asking those faithful what they want. Unbothered, they go “that’s my club, I’ll give them my money again coming Sunday”. By joining a flock, you choose to be a sheep.
It’s been two thousand years, folks. If we’re still rolling like this, do we deserve any better?