Hieromonk Meletios
Larissa, 2025
Prologue
The Hierarchy of the Church of
Greece in 1924 carried out a coup in the ecclesiastical sphere and changed the
Ecclesiastical calendar; this rebellion was unprecedented! It designated the
10th of March as the 23rd of March, thus omitting the feasts of thirteen days.
This innovation of the Ecclesiastical calendar had been condemned in the past
by the Orthodox Church.
The things that will now be heard
here are nothing other than the confessional voice that has been raised for 100
years now by our holy fathers. Let these sound like a small siren so as to
awaken the otherwise elect souls who, “in good faith,” still remain in
communion with the pan-heresy of Ecumenism, and so that they may withdraw from
the wolf-shepherds.
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1. The Change of
the Ecclesiastical Calendar
The Church, which is imbued with
the spirit of unity, desires that the celebration of the feasts, and especially
of the great ones, be observed uniformly by all the faithful. This, in the
beginning, during the period of the persecutions, did not occur.
After these things, the First
Ecumenical Council, in 325 A.D., established by its decision, irrevocably, the
regulations concerning the day of the celebration of Pascha. Thus, little by
little, there was formed the Ecclesiastical or Patristic calendar of the
movable and immovable feasts on the basis of the Julian calendar. The good
pleasure of God in this Ecclesiastical calendar was expressed through
undeniable divine signs of our Lord.
This joint celebration was
shattered in 1924 by a “diabolical” innovation—the change of the Ecclesiastical
calendar. This took place without there being an ecclesiastical reason, and it
opened the way for the subterranean schemes of the sheep-clad wolves who leapt
into the Vineyard of the Lord. These were the omens of the Ecumenical storm
that we are living through today, one hundred years later. It caused upheaval,
disorder, and inconsistency in the liturgical practice of the Church. This
constitutes a “worldwide scandal” and brought confusion and disturbance into
the conscience of the Orthodox people.
One year earlier, in 1923, the
State of Greece had introduced the New Calendar into civil life. However, by
the Royal Decree of January 18, 1923, it left in force also the Julian calendar
insofar as it concerned the Church in general and the religious feasts.
According to this Decree, in our homeland there was a coexistence of two
calendars: the New one of the state and the Ecclesiastical one of the Church.
Thus things were arranged nicely!
The immovable feasts were adjusted to the corresponding dates of the civil
calendar and no problem was created! For example, the 25th of December of the
Julian calendar was identified with the 7th of January of the New Calendar. No
change occurred in the immovable feasts, except in the naming of the dates.
Likewise, for each year the movable feasts were also adjusted.
With the change, the following
was revealed: The complete absence of a pastoral cause that could justify the
alteration was proclaimed aloud, something which the Churches that retained the
old calendar continually demonstrate with a strong voice—those of Jerusalem, Russia,
Serbia, Mount Athos, etc. In these, the coexistence of the civil and
ecclesiastical calendar is harmonized excellently even to this day, and it
creates no confusion at all!
The edifice of the change of the
ecclesiastical calendar was built upon the sand of falsehood! Falsehood upon
falsehood! They kept saying repeatedly that the change does not clash with
dogmas or traditions, nor with the sacred Canons of the Church, whereas in
reality it was a stick of dynamite against them!
All the arguments of the
innovators are unsound and have been refuted! For this reason, in discussions
they mainly change the subject; they put forward the divisions of the
Old-Calendarists, while turning a blind eye to their own alignment with all the
heresies.
They strain out the gnat and
swallow the camel! They think that the external cohesion of their Bishops
constitutes a fruit of the Holy Spirit. Quite the opposite! Let the gendarme be
absent for a little while and then we shall see into how many pieces they will
be broken!
2. Causes and
Purpose of the Change
The purpose of the change was
joint celebration with the heretics of the West, as this is clearly attested
both by the encyclical of 1920 and by the anti-Orthodox Congress of 1923.
For appearance’s sake, however,
they invoked other reasons, such as the shifting of the vernal equinox, which
in the end they did not correct! Yet they did correct the immovable feasts,
Christmas, etc., which have no relation to it whatsoever!
They further said that the Julian
calendar is not accurate; yet they did not adopt the Persian calendar, which is
more accurate than the Gregorian!
The Holy Spirit knows far better
about matters of the equinox and the calendar than the astronomers of every
age! It was this Spirit that illumined the holy fathers of the First Ecumenical
Council, and they set in order the matters concerning the celebration of
Pascha.
They, although they knew very
well that with the passage of time a shift of the vernal equinox occurs,
nevertheless did not trouble themselves about it. With full knowledge they
overlooked this shift as something insignificant and harmless for the Church,
and for this reason they did not foresee that any correction of it should be
made in the future. They preserved the essence and did not collide with the
Injunctions of the Holy Apostles.
The holy fathers in practice
accepted conventionally, as the Vernal Equinox, the 21st of March of the Julian
calendar. Thus, on this matter, the Orthodox Church never needs astronomers
throughout the centuries! For her, the Paschalion established by the
holy fathers is eternal—finished, period!
Following the holy fathers of the
First Ecumenical Council, the fathers of the other Ecumenical Councils also
perceived no confusion and did not dare to make any correction! Only those who
had a worldly mind—Archbishop Chrysostomos Papadopoulos and Patriarch Meletios
Metaxakis—dared what had not been dared!
3. Result of the
Use of Two Calendars
The results that have followed
this change up to today are all negative!
“If the change is not made,” they
said, “after thousands of years, a time will come when Christmas will be
celebrated in the summer, and Pascha in the autumn!”
And what of it! Does this not
happen even today? When Christmas is celebrated, do all the Orthodox have
winter, as we have here in Greece? No! Elsewhere they have summer! Likewise,
when Pascha is celebrated, elsewhere they have spring and elsewhere they have
autumn!
Nor does the natural difference
of time in the various regions of the earth constitute an argument against
those who remain steadfast in the sacred traditions of the Church. These
differences existed even before the innovation, yet no one rose up! After thousands
of years, we also ask them: what will happen to their corrected calendar? Many
absurdities will occur!
If your feet stand upon two
moving bases, for example on two boats or on two cars, you will not reach your
destination! In a similar way the New-Calendarists also fared with the change:
they celebrate the movable feasts according to the Ecclesiastical calendar, but
the immovable ones according to the New. And since the difference of the 13
days is not fixed, with the passage of years it will become 15, 20, 100, 1000
days, etc.; the consequence is that everything will be turned upside down in
the New Calendar!
Thus, a time will come when:
a) The Fast of the Apostles will
be abolished completely.
b) Clean Monday will fall on the
day of the Panagia, on the fifteenth of August!
c) Pascha will fall on the day of
the Dormition of the Theotokos!
d) Pascha will fall on the day of
the Exaltation of the Precious Cross!
e) They will celebrate Christmas
twice, without Pascha in between!
f) When Pascha coincides with the
feast of the Dormition, or of Christmas, either the Fast of the Panagia
or that of Christmas will in essence be abolished!
Behold into what pits they fell
with the correction they made! Well does the Apostle Paul say: “He who catches
the wise in their craftiness”! And the worst thing is that the liturgical unity
of the entire Orthodox Church was broken; a liturgical schism came about!
Can you imagine what would have
happened if, as the day of change, they had appointed the 4th of August? That
year they would have celebrated neither the Transfiguration nor the Fifteenth
of August! Then no one would have accepted the change! For this reason, the
cunning Metaxakis at his Congress in 1923 stressed that the omission of the 13
days should be done at some period when great feasts are scarce in the festal
calendar, just as formerly the scribes, who wanted to put the Lord to death,
were saying, “not during the feast, lest the people be stirred up!”
4. High Priests in
the Service of Satan
Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis
separated from Christ and went with the devil. Fr. Justin Popović called him a
great maker of schisms! He, together with his like-minded associate, the
Athenian Chrysostomos Papadopoulos, created the schism of 1924 and provoked
God, because according to John Chrysostom, “nothing provokes God so much as for
the Church to be divided.” These are the ones responsible for the schism,
something which they themselves also confessed.
He tells us, concerning this, Fr.
Philotheos Zervakos about Metaxakis: “Being tormented by illness and stricken
by conscience in the final moments of his death, he said: ‘I am tormented
because I divided the Church.’” And about the Athenian Chrysostomos he tells
us: “He raised both his hands and struck his head and was saying: ‘If only I
had not saved it, if only I had not saved it. This perverted Metaxakis dragged
me down with him. … Go to the president of the Old-Calendarists and tell him to
go to the Government and tell it to order me, and tomorrow morning I will send
notice to all the Churches to restore the old calendar.’”
These things vividly reveal
Archbishop Chrysostomos; he did not believe the New Calendar to be correct! But
his desire to please men and his lack of confessional conscience proved him to
be the most suitable instrument of the innovators. Although he repented of the
change, he did not have the heroism to repair the evil!
Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis was
ruthless. He was marked by boundless ambition; he was an “unstable and restless
spirit of love of rule, an evil demon.” He ascended to the thrones of Kition,
Athens, Constantinople, and Alexandria!
Fr. Philotheos Zervakos tells us
that he climbed to the thrones like a thief, that he removed his cassock when
he went to Europe, that he was a Mason of the 33rd degree, and that he
fulfilled a will pleasing to the devil! Let us recall here that the Masons
worship Satan.
At the so-called Pan-Orthodox
Congress of 1923, he planted the bomb of the calendar reform; now the lighting
of the fuse was also needed! This was done by his friend, the Archbishop of
Athens Chrysostomos, the following year, in 1924. In order to mislead the
hierarchs and impose the change of the calendar, he used falsehood and deceit.
The initiative for the change was
not held by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, but by the Archbishop of Athens
Chrysostomos, without a decision of the Hierarchy. He, under pressure from the
state, unilaterally decided on the change of the calendar, despite the
hesitation and fear of Gregory VII, who afterward was “ordered” by him to
accept it.
He who yesterday confessed that
the change constitutes a worldwide scandal now carries it out himself! He
considered himself superior to the Ecumenical Councils and caused a worldwide
scandal.
Of course, the other Hierarchs
were also accomplices. Fr. Philotheos Zervakos again writes: “The departed
Patriarch and the Hierarchs of Greece fulfilled a will pleasing to the devil:
they grieved God and the saints and gladdened the devil and his followers.”
5. Persecution
In order for the innovation of
1924 to be imposed in Greece, the Hierarchy of the Church proclaimed an
unrelenting war against those who disagreed. It carried out crushing and savage
persecutions against the “Old-Calendarists,” with the gendarme also as an
assistant. It adopted harsh and, in many respects, barbarous measures against
this sacred movement; it persecuted in every way the hierarchs, priests, and
other clergy who separated.
During these persecutions, the
priests were arrested and exiled, or imprisoned, or driven by force to various gendarme
stations, where they stripped off their cassocks, cut their beards, and
publicly shamed them! Their churches were sealed, the Epitaphioi were
overturned, and the clubs of the gendarmes fell furiously upon the heads of the
faithful!
6. The Bags of
Aeolus Were Opened
“Do not worry,” they said, “it is
a small innocent jump of 13 days! Like a little hole in a balloon, we will make
it up!” With this jump the terrible bags of Aeolus of Ecumenism were opened,
which devours like a cancerous tumor the very entrails of Orthodoxy! This was
the most insidious blow against the Church of Christ.
The change of the calendar opened
the gates of the heresy of Ecumenism! Of the Orthodox Churches, the first to
yield to Ecumenism was that of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
In 1920, the locum tenens of the Ecumenical Throne was Dorotheos of Prusa. Then
the Ecumenist Encyclical of 1920 was issued, which the Ecumenists have as a
guide. This document calls the various heretical groups “Churches,” thus
overturning Orthodox ecclesiology!
He was punished exemplarily by
God for the impiety of this Encyclical. He went to London in March of 1921, and
there he offered the enkolpion of Joachim III to the heretical
Archbishop of Canterbury. And he died during the course of this visit!
Let us recall that the Patriarch
of Constantinople Joseph II, who accepted an “economical union” with the Latins
at the synod of Ferrara–Florence in 1439, died suddenly during the course of a
meal before signing, and was buried there! And the Ecumenist Russian
Metropolitan of Leningrad, Nikodim Rotov, when in the year 1978 he visited the
Pope, died suddenly while conversing with him!
The New Calendar constitutes the
introduction of what followed, with the well-known outcomes of the lifting of
the anathemas, the concelebrations with the Papists and Monophysites, the joint
prayers with every heretic and person of another religion, with the Ecumenical
Patriarchate of Constantinople taking the lead, and the crowning of all these,
the Synod of Crete in 2016!
With all these things, Orthodox
ecclesiology was overthrown wholesale, and the Orthodox Church was officially
placed on an equal footing with all the heresies! We have an open betrayal of
our Orthodox faith!
The innovators, when the change
was made, justified themselves behind the phrase: “the reform of the calendar
did not offend any dogma.” Today what false justifications will the
perpetrators and bodyguards of the pan-heresy of Ecumenism find? These even consider
Mohammedanism and the other idolatrous religions to lead to God!
7. Concerning
Heretics
We Orthodox turn away from the
associations of heretics, because heretics, according to our saints, are not
Christians; they are instruments of the devil according to John Chrysostom; and
for this reason, Cosmas of Aetolia tells us that we must weep and lament for
them. The heretic will not see the face of God!
Among the greatest heresies are
Catholicism, or Papism, and Protestantism; these constitute the complete
corruption of Christianity!
Papism, that is, the Latin
heresy, constitutes a local Church that was deceived by Lucifer and does
whatever he directs it to do! It is an obedient instrument of Satan, according
to Gregory Palamas! The Latins are the most implacable enemies of Orthodoxy.
They seek the incorporation of the Orthodox Church into the Roman Catholic
heresy! “The gate of the fold is open,” they tell us; “there is room for
everyone!”
The Papists are deposed and
anathematized heretics for the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church of
Christ. They do not have the grace of the All-Holy Spirit. Indeed, Nicodemus
the Hagiorite calls them very ancient heretics! And Athanasius Parios tells us
that they, with the addition of the Filioque, sinned worse even than
Lucifer!
In the person of the Pope,
Eugenios Voulgaris and Meletius of Athens see the true face of the Antichrist;
and Cosmas of Aetolia calls the Pope antichrist—him whom Bartholomew I and
other Bishops call “most holy” and kiss!
The heresy of the Protestants is
a daughter of the Latin heresy. Their many communities officially created in
1948 an organization, the “gang” of the World Council of Churches (W.C.C.),
which is nothing other than a revival of paganism, and which constitutes an
organized delusion against the Orthodox Truth. This Council sets aside the Holy
Trinity as a fundamental article of the Christian faith!
8. Ecumenism –
Pan-Religion
Ecumenism is a forerunner of the
Antichrist; it is a worldwide movement of International Zionism. It seeks first
that all the heresies—Papism, Protestantism, Monophysitism, etc.—be united with
Orthodoxy, and then with all religions—Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.—so that
there may be one Pan-Religion, in which people will believe in a false god!
By theologians and clergy of all
fronts, Ecumenism has been characterized as a pan-heresy. It is promoted
through the two heresies, the Papist and the Protestant, and it is one of the
greatest enemies of our Orthodoxy.
This heresy has two
characteristics which the ancient heresies did not have: first, the universal
assault against Orthodoxy, and not only against one dogma; and second, the
almost universal acceptance of the heresy by the leading clergy and theologians
of Orthodoxy, with very few exceptions among priests and monks, and even these
chiefly only in words!
The backbone of the ecclesiology
of the Ecumenists is the thrice-accursed heretical branch theory, according to
which all the communities of the heretics remain “branches” of the Church.
According to this theory, the Orthodox Church is just as guilty for the
separation of the heretics as those who separated from the Church!
Post-Patristic Theology is one component of Ecumenism.
It is foolish for one to view the
Calendar issue within the narrow limits of the span of thirteen days; the
matter is connected with the catholic life of the Church, it has an
ecclesiological character, and it is inseparably linked with the Ecumenical
movement.
A fundamental piece of evidence
and testimony for this is both the official document of the planning of the
betrayal, namely the Encyclical of 1920, and the Pan-Orthodox Congress of 1923.
That is, the calendar constituted a suitable instrument for the promotion of
the Ecumenist vision.
In the dreadful downhill course
of the delusion of Ecumenism, the official Orthodox Churches were also swept
along; they enrolled in the W.C.C.! Thus, Orthodoxy was degraded to the
position of a poor relative in this worldwide conglomeration of heresies, which
is dominated by the heretics.
The Ecumenist Hierarchs, through
their connection with the W.C.C., took the members of Christ and made them
members of a harlot, and thus they disgraced our Holy Church! They rejected the
Orthodox faith and became “organic members” of this association, which is
composed of hundreds of heresies; within it the mystery of lawlessness is
accomplished.
Who can imagine that the Orthodox
Church of the period of the fathers of the Councils would proclaim itself an
organic member of a fellowship that united Arians, Nestorians, Severians, and
the other heretics of their time?
The theological criteria of the
Ecumenists have been blunted! They have renounced the ecclesiological and
soteriological exclusivity of Orthodoxy, and the fundamental right of the
Orthodox Church—her divine mission, that is, the re-evangelization and the
return of the heretics to the Orthodox Church, from which they separated.
9. Patriarchate of
Constantinople
Foremost in the Ecumenist
apostasy is the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople! From its summit down
to the last deacon, it officially and coldly sells out the Orthodox deposit of
faith!
The last three Patriarchs of
Constantinople belong among the men who speak perverse things! They rendered
excellent service to Papism, since they accepted it as a true Church of Christ,
with divine grace and sacraments, and the Pope as a “venerable brother” and
“first in the universal Church of Christ”!
Their false doctrines have
surpassed every precedent. Their initiatives are very bold and their blunders
countless, which cause dizziness. The innovations and blasphemous utterances of
these Ecumenists constitute an entire sea, daily “foaming forth their own
shame”!
They envied the glory of
Herostratus and are setting fire to the Orthodox Church in order to burn her!
They set themselves to make Orthodoxy a satellite of the Papist heresy; thus,
they proved worse than John XI Bekkos! The Pope succeeded in presenting them
throughout the world as Cardinals! They bowed down to him, and now they are
leading the Orthodox flock into the Papal fold!
On the basis of their sacred
words and their course, we give them the title that belongs to them: heretic.
The Synodikon of Orthodoxy characterizes them not only as heretics, but
also as under anathema, because they do not say anathema to the heretical
Papists, but address them as: “beloved and venerable brethren.” From the Sacred
Canons they are designated as “false bishops”!
The abomination of Ecumenism has
settled itself comfortably in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Since 1920 it has admired the Papist heresy, praised it, and finally become one
with it! The Phanar today shines with false doctrine and not with Orthodoxy; as
a result, instead of enlightening those who are in the darkness of the heresies
of Papism, Protestantism, etc., it darkens them even more!
Of course, it is not only the
Patriarchs of Constantinople who are Ecumenists. Almost all the Bishops of the
Orthodox Churches have capitulated to Papism and to Protestantism, and they
demand that we also follow them in this spiritual downhill course! They speak
like genuine offspring of the Pope and bow to him with servility!
Athenagoras of Constantinople,
Demetrios of Constantinople, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Athenagoras of
Thyateira, Parthenios of Alexandria, Ieronymos I of Athens, Iakovos of America,
Christodoulos of Athens, are splendid lads of the company of the Ecumenists!
The Pope continually proclaims,
together with his other delusions and heresies, that he is the visible head of
the Church, and the Orthodox Bishops who visit him stand more voiceless than
fish before these blasphemies of his against the Orthodox Church; and they
endorse what he proclaims by their kiss with him and continually address him as
“Your Holiness”!
They reached the point,
Hierarchs—specifically Demetrios of America at that time and his entourage—of
receiving from the hands of the Pope on June 29, 2003, the Pallium, a symbol of
recognition of Papal primacy! As he was giving it to them, he said: “While I
prepare to present to you this liturgical symbol, which you will wear at
official ceremonies as a sign of ecclesiastical communion with the Apostolic
See of Rome …”
From 1949 until today, what have
we not heard from so many mouths of Bishops and Patriarchs! They proclaim false
doctrines with head uncovered, and at times they profess Orthodoxy in words, so
as to create confusion among the faithful.
They call the heresies “sister
Churches,” and they call all the unbaptized, the unbelievers, the Jews, and the
heretics brothers! For them, these heresies, together with the Orthodox Church,
already constitute the One Church, which is now divided and is moving toward
unity!
They recognize the Pope with all
his demonic pride; and with their foolish and destructive journeys and meetings
in Rome, in order to pray together and bow down to him, they have driven a
deadly knife into the heart of the Orthodox Church! By denying her uniqueness,
they bury her and seek to make a new Church!
They associate with the
crucifiers of our Christ, the Jews; they honor them and visit their synagogues
and attend the ceremonies of these evildoers and enemies of Christ, they lay
wreaths at their monuments and pray together with them!
They blaspheme and set aside the
traditions, the Canons, the Dogmas, the Symbol of the Faith, the Orthodox
Church, the Holy Trinity! They are indifferent to the truth and thus scandalize
the faithful!
The Dialogue of Love, of which
they speak to us, is a plan of dark inspiration. In the Church the separation
of Love from Truth is not permitted. The true love of the holy fathers toward
the heterodox sprang from zeal to enlighten them with the light of the truth;
they were concerned for their sincere return to the Holy Church, for their
redemption.
The love of the Gospel is true,
because it “rejoices with the truth”; but the love of the Ecumenists, which
rejoices with the falsehood of the heresies, is diseased, it is false, because
it supports in delusion millions of heretical Christians. This love of theirs
toward the heretics, without telling them the truth, constitutes misanthropy
according to Maximus the Confessor.
Let us look at some wretched acts
of certain Ecumenists.
10. Athenagoras of
Constantinople
The great denier of Orthodoxy and
pro-Turk Athenagoras I was elected Patriarch uncanonically, with the help of
Turks and Americans, despite the opposing opinion of the Plenary Session of the
Hierarchy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. He came to
Constantinople on January 26, 1949, on the airplane of the Mason American
President Harry S. Truman, with the aim of disgracing the Orthodox faith.
He was officially accused of
being a Mason and did not deny it. His conduct was senseless. He was betraying
all Orthodoxy. He was a source of anarchism and nihilism in the Orthodox world.
The Athonites justly called him a heretic and an apostate.
He loved his worldwide
projection, and not the promotion of Orthodoxy. Whatever constitutes its
essence, that is, the sacred tradition—and indeed even the dogmas and the
Canons—were set aside by him into the “treasury” of the Church.
Throughout his entire Ecumenist
course, he had as a guide the Encyclical of 1920. In 1952 he issued an
encyclical which invited the primates of the local Orthodox Churches to enroll
in the W.C.C.
His pro-Jewish sentiments are
well known. He was present at a special service that took place in a Jewish
Synagogue of New York City in 1940, where he said the following: “In Corfu,
where I once lived, I served several times as a Rabbi for my Jewish friends.”
He was the chief leader of the
Ecumenist games. Thus, he began the bargaining away of Orthodoxy with the
official lifting of the anathema against Papism in December 1965, thereby
proclaiming the Orthodox Church before him to have been in error. This lifting
was proclaimed theatrically by the unionists. The Papists, of course, remain
anathematized for the Orthodox Church.
In their Proclamation, select
members of Mount Athos in 1964 informed him that if he continued his pro-union
actions, they would repudiate him! And in 1970, Athonite Abbots and monks, in
their Memorandum to the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, with monastic
boldness made manifest their sacred indignation for the deeds committed against
the Orthodox faith and Tradition.
His statements and actions,
unacceptable to the Orthodox conscience, constitute an endless series! Let us
see some:
“The age of dogma has passed,” he
said; “the dogmas now we should put into the treasury, ‘let us mint a common
coin with the other Churches: the coin of love.’”
To a Protestant Pastor he said:
“You are a Priest; I could receive from your hands the Body and the Blood of
Christ.”
He was giving “the holy things to
the dogs,” that is, to Catholics and Protestants, something which he himself
confessed! He said that Roman Catholics can commune in an Orthodox church and
the Orthodox in a Roman Catholic one!
He proclaimed that the terrible
heresy of the “Filioque,” which distorts the Dogma of the Holy Trinity,
does not constitute an obstacle to Union, but is a simple custom! This voice is
blasphemous and God-fighting according to Photios the Great.
He equated the true Orthodox
faith with the false faiths of the heretics, the Mohammedans, and the
Buddhists!
He envisioned the “re-founding”
of the Church through the union of the Orthodox with the heretics! He was in
favor of the marriage of clergy even after their ordination!
These things and others testify
that he rejected both dogmas and traditions. Moreover, they reveal his crowned
hypocrisy, when in cold blood in 1963 he was telling the Athonites that he is
so devoted to the traditions, etc., of Orthodoxy that he does not even agree to
hang the icons a little higher! Yet he lowered the Orthodox Church much lower,
into the depth of satanic heresies!
In July 1972 this heretic and
apostate died and was buried. He departed unrepentant for the crimes he
committed against our Mother Church! He was a matricide! He served Satan! He
was praised and exalted by all those who hate the Orthodox Church—by her enemy,
the world!
During the period 1963–1967, in
the treacherous course of Patriarch Athenagoras I, an Orthodox stance was
raised by Chrysostomos Hadjistavrou of Athens with his Synod. He saw that with
his pro-Papal actions he was mortally wounding Orthodoxy and the Nation, and
that these tended toward the complete subjugation of Orthodoxy to the Pope!
In his anti-union struggle he
sought the support of the Holy Community of Mount Athos, which remained
completely indifferent to his dramatic appeal!
He wanted the return to the
Patristic Calendar. Fr. Philotheos Zervakos relates to us: “On the eve of April
21 (of the revolution), when I visited him, he said to me jokingly:
‘Chrysostomos introduced the New Calendar, Chrysostomos will cast it out,’ but
the day after next they cast him out involuntarily from the archbishopric and
he died before he had time!”
The successor of Chrysostomos,
Ieronymos I of Athens, was a praiser of Athenagoras I! His Synod wanted the
Orthodox to respect the traditions of the Pope, that is, infallibility,
primacy, the immaculate conception, purgatory, indulgences, etc.
He founded the movement
“International Love”, an organization which resembled the “everything into the
same pot” of Ecumenism, but also of Freemasonry!
He translated the Gospel
according to Fulton, which contains blasphemy against the Theotokos.
11. Iakovos
Koukouzis of America
Iakovos Koukouzis of America, a
classic type of contemporary false shepherd, also served the plans of
Ecumenism. His unionist effort was frenzied! He acted in a decisive manner
against Hellenism. At the meeting of Athenagoras I with Paul VI in Jerusalem in
January 1964, he was the most important person of the patriarchal entourage.
Immediately afterward this
foul-mouthed man visited Athens uncanonically, without the knowledge of
Chrysostomos II [Hadjistavrou] of Athens, made insulting and blasphemous
statements as if he were a Cardinal, and provoked the indignation of the
people, with the result that the Minister of Foreign Affairs ordered him to
leave Athens!
He provided 500,000 dollars for
the construction of a pantheistic temple, so that all gods might be worshipped,
regardless of religion!
In a memorandum of his to the
Patriarchate on July 5, 1970, he expresses his intention to recognize
Freemasonry, because, he says, most of our Christians here are Masons!
He was openly turning against the
dogmas and the Canons of the Church and the Traditions—and not only these! He
denied the Symbol of the Faith; he denied in his statements the Dogma of the
Holy Trinity! He denied the Orthodox Church; “we have need of a new
Christianity,” he was saying!
The Greek expatriates of Chicago,
in 1972, denounced him “for apostasy and heresy, for violation of Holy
Scripture and the Sacred Canons, for denial of the Symbol of the Faith, for
voluntary denial of the Triune Godhead.”
In 1964 the Jewish lawyer Frank
Goldman, honorary president of the International Jewish Lodge B’nai B’rith,
awarded him the “Man of the Year” prize, because he proposed a resolution
against antisemitism at the congress of the W.C.C., which was accepted.
At his participation in a
dialogue with the Jews in 1972, he agreed that the liturgical texts should be
revised with regard to terminology and that the negative or hostile
insinuations toward the Jews and Judaism should be removed!
He further declared that, until
the time of the Second World War, “we attributed the crucifixion of Jesus to
the Jews”!
For all these things, this denier
of Orthodoxy was worthy of punishment! The Patriarchate ought to have dismissed
this most impious and heretical hierarch, to have deposed him! But instead, it
left him to blaspheme freely!
12. Demetrios of
Constantinople
Patriarch Demetrios I, in his
enthronement address, declared that he would follow “the holy and great line of
our great predecessor”! That is, he told us that he would continue the
corrupting and evil-minded work of the Mason and Ecumenist Athenagoras I. From
this statement alone one could suffice to prove that he deviated from the
Orthodox faith and truth, by publicly teaching false doctrine and adopting
Latin-minded views.
The Athonites who earlier had
ceased commemorating the Patriarch Athenagoras, although they read this
heretical address of his, hastened immediately—except for the Zealots—to
commemorate his name! The traitor Athenagoras departed, but the betrayal continued
with an even more intense pace through his successor Demetrios.
He, in December 1987, took part
in the “Ecumenist ‘theater’” of Rome, that is, he “concelebrated” with the Pope
and left the Orthodox faithful astonished! If there had been Orthodox Bishops
confessors, they would have deposed him! Until his death he continued to betray
Orthodoxy coldly, steadily, and continually!
He praised the W.C.C. and the
Encyclical of 1920. If everyone who even only accepts this encyclical thereby
becomes outright a heretic, he who praises it—indeed from the very platform of
the Ecumenical Throne—how should he be characterized? Throughout his whole life
he proclaimed heresy “with bared head,” just as his predecessor did!
He also declared that an Orthodox
Christian can, in a case of necessity, by economia, receive communion in
a Roman Catholic Church!
“He warmly congratulated” in 1975
the Ecumenist Metropolitan of Thyateira Athenagoras of Thyateira for his
blasphemous confession, the “Confession of Thyateira”; he characterized it as
splendid and, by Synodal decision, gave the blessing for its publication!
He, the Metropolitan of
Thyateira, blasphemed the fruits of the All-Holy Spirit, the Sacred Canons of
the Church; he characterized them as human commandments and schemes of follies
and hatred!
13. Christodoulos
of Athens
Christodoulos of Athens was also
a great Ecumenist and a praiser of the heretic Athenagoras I. He blasphemed
against the Symbol of the Faith by accepting two Churches. His relations with
the Jews were well known. He maintained that Jews and Christians believe in the
same God!
The frenzy of self-promotion led
him to bring the Pope to Athens, this enemy of our Faith and of our homeland!
And the Church of Greece, through him, crowned him with a golden crown of great
value!
The Greek Hierarchs,
unfortunately, offered earth and water to the heresiarch. They said “yes” and
opened the gates to the “false prophet.” They accepted with applause the
Latin-minded policy of Christodoulos, just as they also accept in silence the
blasphemies of Bartholomew I!
14. Bartholomew of
Constantinople
The deeds of the dean of the
Ecumenists, Bartholomew I, are unbelievably provoking. He is an excellent
servant of Satan. The abomination of desolation sits in his mind! He ascended
to the Patriarchal Throne in 1991.
The Orthodox Church teaches us
that, since evil associations corrupt good morals, we should not associate with
heretics, because their words wound hearts like poisoned arrows. Friendship and
association with them is harm and the loss of the soul.
Bartholomew I disregarded these
things; he accepted the impious and heretics and attended the Papal Institute
of Oriental Studies of Rome. The result was that the proverb was fulfilled:
“with whichever teacher you sit, such letters you will learn.” There he learned
the “heretical letters”! The vipers of the Vatican poisoned him thoroughly with
the streams of Papal false doctrine and he became a janissary with a helmet! He
received a doctorate of false doctrine! From then on, instead of rightly
dividing the word of Truth, he continually beheads it!
While he says that he promotes
Orthodoxy, he continually insults and degrades it. We have a multitude of
proofs that testify to his departure from our Orthodox Faith. He does not mind
the things of God, but the things of the world of Ecumenist apostasy.
In the 34 years of his
Patriarchate, what issues has he not created! Everywhere! In the Church of
Greece, of Crete, in Jerusalem, in Australia, in America, in Ukraine! Issues,
issues, in order to prevail as an “Ecumenical” tyrant of the Orthodox Church.
He has been infected by the
microbe of the heresy of Ecumenism; for this reason, he has been seized by a
diseased unionist mania and introduces new demons! Not only does he preach
heresy, but he undermines the Christian Faith, since he equates our God-Man
Christ with all the founders of the religions of the world and questions that our
Church possesses the fullness of the Truth.
He has bowed down to the
sacrilegious heresiarch Pope, the enemy of the Son of the Mother of God, and as
a papalist he too is an enemy of our Lord Jesus Christ!
His provocative and anti-Orthodox
statements constitute an entire mountain, and they are accompanied by
uncanonical and impious acts, utterly humiliating and treacherous for
Orthodoxy.
From a beacon of Orthodoxy, Mr.
Bartholomew I was transformed into a demolisher of her spiritual ramparts. “I
couldn’t care less,” he said in 2021, if the Patriarch of Moscow does not
commemorate me; yet he does not say this also about the Holy Monastery of
Esphigmenou Monastery!
To the coalition of the forces of
darkness, which want to neutralize the Church of Christ and move according to a
well-ordered plan, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I also extends a
helping hand; he is an internal enemy, and therefore more fearsome!
The Apostle Paul was the chosen
vessel of our Lord and bore His name “before nations and kings.” By contrast,
Patriarch Bartholomew I is a chosen vessel of the devil and bears the
pan-heresy of Ecumenism before the world! He denied his Christian mission and
his evangelical duty, because he mingled ecclesiastically with the heretics.
For him Jesus Christ is not for today; He was only for the past centuries!
15. His Lineage
Bartholomew I is the third in
succession Latin-minded Patriarch of Constantinople and faithfully follows the cacodox
line of his predecessors Athenagoras I and Demetrios I, who:
a) They denied the uniqueness of
Orthodoxy by accepting the heretical encyclical of 1920 and by their
participation in the World Council of Churches!
b) They commemorated the Pope
from 1966 in the diptychs, while they regarded as canonical churches equal to
the Orthodox the Papism, Anglicanism, and Monophysitism!
c) They prayed together with the
Pope and confessed him as “first in the universal Church of Christ.”
d) In particular, Patriarch
Demetrios I “concelebrated” in 1987 in Rome with the Pope and accepted as
Orthodox the heretical Monophysites (Chambésy 1990), whom the Church has
condemned since the fifth century through Ecumenical Councils!
Bartholomew I continued the
treacherous course of his two predecessors and recognized Papism and the Unia
at Balamand of Lebanon in 1993. This was the reward of Papism for its ancient
and modern crimes against the Church of the Orthodox!
He confirmed this union at his
meeting with the Pope, where after the Uniate concelebration they had in Rome
in 1995, they co-signed a joint communiqué which applauds what took place in
Lebanon. This tells us that “both their Churches possess priesthood,
sacraments, and are sister Churches”!
On the other hand, however, the
holy fathers wrote about Papism that it constitutes a “separation from God,”
and therefore how has it now become a “sister Church,” without repentance and
return to ancient Canonicity? Quite simply because this is what the New World
Order requires.
Because he has become spiritually
paralyzed, he boldly gave Holy Communion to heretics on Sunday, June 9, 2002,
in Ravenna. And Athenagoras I also gave “the holy things to the dogs”; Moscow
had preceded in this matter with its decision in the year 1969, which was
called the “decision of Judas”!
Whoever opposes his Ecumenist
policy he identifies with the enemies of the institution of the Ecumenical
Patriarchate, whereas he himself is the greatest enemy of this institution!
He tries, moved by hatred, to
crush spiritually and to condemn “with a light conscience” those who dare to
disagree with him and to break the barrier of silence and guilty tolerance and
to confess that they no longer follow him, because he is a false shepherd!
He does not threaten Mr. Stefanos
Kasselakis, the advocate of Sodomism, with excommunication, but gladly receives
and invites him, while the genuine Orthodox Christians he continually threatens
with persecutions. And he leaves undisturbed so many enemies of the
Church—Papists, Protestants, Masons, Zionists, and so many other instruments of
the devil—to run wild and ravage the rational flock of Christ; these he
embraces and loves!
He appears at times with the face
of an Orthodox shepherd and sets forth patristic sayings, sweet words, words of
love for Orthodoxy, and at other times with the face of a harsh persecutor,
raising the sword of violence; then he hypocritically invokes the Sacred Canons
just as the Pharisees of old invoked the Law!
As soon as he became Patriarch,
one of his first actions was the very unjust persecution of the fathers of the
Russian Skete of the Prophet Elias on Mount Athos, because they did not
commemorate him. With the help of the police, the Patriarchal Exarchate, and
with the cover of the Holy Community, he put handcuffs on them and expelled
them without trial, violently and inhumanly, within one hour!
16.
Old-Calendarists, the Holy Monastery of Esphigmenou, and Bartholomew
He embraces the heretics mentally
in his texts addressed to them, and in reality, during his visits to the
various ecclesiastical centers of the West. They are his beloved and venerable
brothers, whereas the Old-Calendarists constitute his mortal enemies, exactly
as the Pope also feels about them. What a coincidence!
He recognizes only the sacraments
of the heretics, but not those of the wholly Orthodox Old-Calendarists! And at
the mere sight of them he casts off the lion’s skin of his Orthodoxy and allows
all the wealth of his passionate heart to be manifested.
The supposed hymn-singer of love,
when in 1996 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to recognize the
sacraments of the Old-Calendarists performed abroad, threatened the state,
saying that “I will declare the Church to be under persecution.” What hypocrisy!
He who sells out Orthodoxy pretends to be its defender!
The Sacred Monastery of
Esphigmenou reacted vigorously and in a patristic manner to the Ecumenist
preachings of the Phanar, by cutting off all communion with the Patriarchate
and with those who are in communion with it, in the year 1972. From then on,
there began a relentless persecution against it by Patriarch Demetrios, which
is continued by his successor, Mr. Bartholomew.
He accuses the monks of this
Monastery, who are most fervent zealots of the Symbol of the Faith, as
unrepentant and schismatic, while he does not call the heretics to repentance,
whom he considers brothers in Christ!
By supporting the formation of
the Brotherhood of the Annunciation, the Katsoulierides, who with
sledgehammer and crowbar were breaking the doors of the Konakion of the
Monastery of Esphigmenou in Karyes, he became a laughingstock throughout the
whole world!
The Lady Theotokos, until today,
has not permitted them to expel the monks of this Monastery. Not even in the
summer of 2024, when so much talk arose about their impending violent
expulsion. Before the general outcry both of the Holy Mountain and of the whole
world, the plans of expulsion were once again thwarted!
His stance toward the Holy
Monastery of Esphigmenou, up to today, has proved that he is marked by a lack
of love; he is “a clanging cymbal,” according to the Apostle Paul!
17. Bartholomew
and Interreligious Meetings
He drags Orthodoxy by force into
the pan-religious camp of the devil and places it beside falsehood and deceit.
He approves the interreligious
joint prayers of ALL religions. This great apostate of these last years never
once condemned the satanic joint prayers of the Ecumenists that took place in
1986 in Assisi of Italy, with the Pope as leader. In them participated not only
the Christian heresies, but also Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, idolaters, sorcerers,
etc.
He participates, without
repenting, in satan-dominated conferences of Ecumenists, such as that of Assisi
in 2002 and that of Canberra in Australia in 1991, where unbelievable revelries
took place. Australia revealed the depth of the apostasy that is being carried
out for a global Church, which has been described as “Babylon the great, the
mother of harlots,” the bride of the final Antichrist.
We saw him in 2009 praying
standing together with representatives of all religions on the ship in
Antarctica, before the model of the globe.
At an event for the environment
in November 2000, in Kathmandu of Nepal, the representatives of the principal
confessions, among them also Mr. Bartholomew, offered sacred gifts to the
Earth, who, like a pagan, offered as a gift to Mother Earth a monastic tract of
land.
18. Zionism,
Islam, and Bartholomew
Photios Kontoglou used to say,
“we, out of love!!! forgive even Zionism, which satanically works for the
disappearance of our religion”; and Bartholomew says that “in Judaism the same
God is worshipped as by us.”
Satan entered his heart, and for
this reason he visited the Jewish Synagogue of New York, Park East, on October 28,
2009. These synagogues are a haunt of demons, according to Chrysostom, likewise
also the souls of the Jews! If one only watches the video of his visit to the
above Synagogue, he understands what Bartholomew is!
Just as in his meetings with the
heretics, so also here he offered to the Jews a stone instead of bread! He went
there not to preach Christ Risen, but to deny Him. For this reason, the Jews
love him, whereas a thousand Jews hated Saint Cosmas and one loved him. He used
to say: “May God protect me from the snares of the Devil, and especially of the
Jews, who spend thousands of purses in order to kill me.”
In our days, in 2013, the former
rabbi of Thessaloniki, Mordechai Frizis, boasted that the Jews of that time
exterminated that murderous anti-Semite, as he calls Saint Cosmas! An attack
against Saint Cosmas was also made by the journal Theologia of the
Church of Greece, issue Jan.–Mar. 2015.
In the year 2021, the American
Jewish Committee awarded Mr. Bartholomew the Human Dignity Award!
Unfortunately, however, he was deprived of the award of Orthodox dignity and
Confession, which he would have received if he spoke the language of Saint
Cosmas!
He converses with the Muslims and
praises Mohammedanism and the Koran, which he gives as a blessing! He speaks
openly about the sanctity and equality of Holy Scripture and the Koran, whose
law is swinish according to Saint Cosmas! He also said that “in Islam the same
God is worshipped as by us.” Similar blasphemies were also uttered by others,
such as Parthenios of Alexandria, Athenagoras of Thyateira, Damaskinos of
Switzerland, Christodoulos of Athens, etc.
19. The Holy
Canons and Bartholomew
Mr. Bartholomew clothed himself
with an authority higher even than that of the Ecumenical Councils. Like
another Lucifer he says: I shall set my throne above the Canons of the Orthodox
Church! Thus, in 1970 he declared in writing that “the provisions regulating
the relations of Orthodox Christians with the heterodox and those of other
religions cannot be applied today and must be modified… A modification of
certain provisions toward a more humane and more realistic direction is
required. The Church cannot and must not live outside place and time”!
The criterion for these things
that he tells us is his own conduct and that of those like him! Since he prays
together with heretics and those of other religions—a thing which is called
spiritual fornication—he wants us to modify those Canons which accuse him as
such a fornicator!
From these things the magnitude
of the crime becomes evident. The godless man insults the Church by saying that
it lives outside place and time! He belongs to the false shepherds of
Neo-Patristic and Post-Patristic theology.
Because his repeated actions
stand in complete opposition to the Holy Canons, which are the walls of safety
of the Church, he characterized them as “walls of shame,” and the holy fathers
who fought the heresies of Papism—which he now embraces—he called “unfortunate
victims of the primal-evil serpent,” because they did not yield to the
Luciferian demands of the Vatican!
“I have hated the assembly of
evildoers, and with the ungodly I will not sit,” says the Church. But he, on
the contrary, constantly associates with the authorities, with the powers, with
the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the heretics of the West,
the Mohammedans, the Buddhists, and the Jews. Not, of course, in order to
preach to them the Truth of the Gospel, but in order to bury it before them!
With the treacherous decisions of
1990 concerning the Monophysites and of 1993 concerning the Papists and the
Uniates, the epilogue of the union began, which had started with the lifting of
the anathemas in 1965.
And the sealing of all the false
doctrines and blasphemies that for decades now have proceeded from the lips of
the Ecumenists took place at the so-called Great Council of Crete in 2016,
where the Holy Spirit was absent! It altered the boundaries of the fathers in
an official ceremony, exactly as had been foretold!
Here, the ecumenistic delirium of
the satan-driven and accursed Ecumenists reached the summit of apostasy. Here
was clearly depicted the capture of the Orthodox Church of Christ by the
Ecumenists! Everything is now finished! Flee, brethren, far from them, as from
the face of a serpent!
The decision of the Church
concerning the celebration of Pascha is a decree that approaches in value the
dogmas of the faith, since by it this issue was settled once and for all.
The reformers of the calendar,
having this in view, were telling us that the change did not affect the
celebration of Pascha. Yet it is known that their desire is to change it!
Already the Church of Finland has changed it for decades now!
The Orthodox Church is concerned
with the common celebration of her own members, and not with that shared with
heretics. The New-Calendarist Ecumenists, instead of returning to the
Ecclesiastical calendar so that all the Orthodox Churches might celebrate
together, burn with the desire to celebrate together with the heretical
churches!
20. Saint Mark
Eugenikos and Bartholomew
The correct teaching of the
Orthodox Church, which tells us that the Latins are heretics, is not tolerated
by the haughty brow of Mr. Bartholomew; therefore, whereas Saint Mark became an
instrument of Orthodox theology, he has become an instrument of heretical
theology. That one struggled “for patristic glory,” while this one struggles
for Latin glory!
The words which the historian
addressed to Isidore, Metropolitan of Kiev, who later became a Cardinal, befit
him: “Woe to you, wretched papist, reviler of the saints, enemy of the truth
and suitable vessel of Satan.”
The Church calls the Pope the
Lucifer of Rome! Why does Mr. Bartholomew associate with him, and indeed with
great joy? Quite simply because, according to the proverb, “like is always
drawn to like”! The Pope is the Lucifer of Rome, Bartholomew the Lucifer of
Constantinople! If he does not repent, this is the title the Church will give
him!
For the world, he is a
personality of global worth and influence, but for the Church he is a great
apostate. The poor man, intoxicated by the opium of Ecumenism, does not reckon
with God! He is a forerunner of the Antichrist!
21. The Language
of the Fathers
One shudders when he hears how
the Fathers called the heretics and how their present-day successors call them!
The language of the holy Fathers concerning heresies and heretics is very
harsh! They use extremely weighty expressions, corresponding to those of the
Gospel. Thus, they call the various heretics wolves, false brethren, poisonous
snakes, dogs, antichrists, robbers, deceitful ones, cunning men, forerunners of
the Antichrist, vessels and instruments of the evil one!
Why do they do this? So that the
faithful may realize the magnitude of the dangers from them, and so that they
may bring the heretics to their senses or deter them from their crooked course.
In our days, a great uproar was
caused by Gregory of Peristeri with his decision to remove the Precious Cross
from the holy Sanctuary. Because of this, the former Metropolitan of Kalavryta,
Ambrosios, said to him: “Either restore the Precious Cross to its place, or
resign and disappear from the position of Metropolitan of Peristeri. … You are
not ‘in the type and place of Christ,’ as a Hierarch, but a PERSECUTOR of our
Savior Jesus Christ! … you have become an ENEMY OF THE SAVIOR CHRIST! … You are
therefore a Traitor of Christ and of the Christian Teaching!”
If, for such a matter, His
Eminence Ambrosios spoke in such language to His Eminence Gregory, with what
kind of language ought he to have spoken to Bartholomew of Constantinople—and
to all the Ecumenists—for his so many crimes against Orthodoxy? Certainly, with
far stricter language!
But sadly, he does not dare to
say even to him: Bartholomew, either cease your heretical ecumenist openings,
or resign and disappear from the position of Patriarch of Constantinople; you
are not “in the type and place of Christ,” you are a persecutor of Orthodoxy,
an enemy and traitor of Christ and of His Church!
This reveals what kind of Bishop
His Eminence Ambrosios is as well! He does not serve the Truth; he marches
together with Bartholomew down the ecumenist slope! If Prime Minister Mr.
Mitsotakis was worthy of excommunication once, Bartholomew is ten times worthy
of deposition! Whichever Bishops dare to depose him will become new Confessors
of the Orthodox Church!
22. One evil
having been granted, countless follow
The downward course of the
New-Calendarists cannot be restrained; they give heed to the teachings of
demons. Our Fathers tell us that an evil life begets evil doctrines, and
conversely, evil doctrines beget an evil life. Whether people are seized by a
wicked life or by wicked doctrines, they are under the power of the devil, who
sets the traps and snares both of evil doctrines and of an evil life.
There are Christian theologians
and clergy who teach the theory of evolution—that man descends from the ape!
This teaching is also heard on the radio of the Church of Greece and is even
promoted in its magazines! Others do not consider the avoidance of childbearing
a mortal sin and are not punished!
Another Bishop, Chrysostomos of
Zakynthos, in 1999 publicly expressed himself in favor of premarital
relations—that is, fornication! And yet he was not deposed!
In 1985 the then Metropolitan of
Nea Ionia, Mr. Timotheos Matthaiakis, composed a prayer “for a new naming upon
change of sex,” and although this constitutes entirely a blasphemy against God,
the Church of Greece included it in its Euchologion!
The present Metropolitan of Nea
Ionia, His Eminence Gabriel, in 2022 publicly expressed blasphemous positions
concerning homosexuality, granted it amnesty, and he is not the only one who
embellishes this abominable passion! To what a state we have come! The
Hierarchy of Greece remains silent about all these things; it does not correct,
it does not punish, but condones them by its silence!
And Elpidophoros of America, in
2022, performed in Greece the baptism of children presented as the “offspring”
of homosexuals; that is, he supports and recognizes homosexual marriage! Could
anyone expect Patriarch Bartholomew to punish him, when he had offered Holy
Communion to the unrepentant supporter of Sodomitism, the then mayor of
Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris! Alas!
Before the Council of Crete, it
had circulated that homosexuality would also be supported in the synodal texts
as a human right of those who have a “different” sexual orientation. This did
not happen. Later, however, the Patriarchate of Constantinople issued a
document, in January 2020, entitled: “For the Life of the World: Toward the
Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church.” In it we also read the following: “All
Christians must always regard every human being as an image of God and must
resist every form of discrimination against any person, regardless of his
sexual orientation”!
23. Shepherds,
grievous wolves
Is discussion still needed after
these things to see that the Holy Spirit does not rest in these shepherds? The
grace of the Holy Spirit has abandoned them! For this reason, even at the
passing of the Law concerning homosexual marriage, they did not react in a
manner according to God.
The responsibility for the fall
of the Patriarch does not burden him alone, but the entire Patriarchal Synod,
which, like a faithful subordinate, approves all his impious actions.
It is now an accomplished fact:
the Hierarchs of the Ecumenical Throne have abandoned the ramparts of Orthodoxy
and have joined the ramparts of every false doctrine, in the chaos of religious
syncretism. While they deny—or rather kill, so far as it depends on them—the
uniqueness of Orthodox Truth, the wretches think that they are serving
Orthodoxy, just as the darkened Jews in the time of Christ were killing His
Apostles and thought that in this way they were offering worship to God!
Their Orthodox mindset has been
corroded! They consider neither the primacy and infallibility of the Pope, nor
the Filioque, nor Purgatory, nor the many other delusions of Rome, to be
obstacles to union with the Papists! Patriarch Bartholomew is no longer worthy
of any trust—not even the slightest—nor likewise are all the Hierarchs of the
Patriarchate.
But the Hierarchs of the Church
of Greece also, from 1924 until today, have been proceeding from fall to fall
with regard to the Orthodox confession and the keeping of the sacred
Traditions. Their moral and spiritual reflexes have been paralyzed.
They characterize the positions
of leading Orthodox Hierarchs and theologians—who hold very important posts in
the World Council of Churches and which are destructive of Orthodox
ecclesiology—as merely a few unfortunate expressions!
We shall find many Hierarchs
praising the holy Confessors, but almost none who imitate them in deed. We
shall also find many speaking vaguely about syncretistic Ecumenism among
certain ministers of the Church, yet without rebuking the pioneer and chief of
the pan-heresy of Ecumenism, Mr. Bartholomew!
He, the Most Reverend Seraphim of
Piraeus, regards him as a very wise, prudent, and profound man, and says that
he is truly a modern helmsman! Who—this Latin-minded man and Ecumenist! And
then he even dedicates a book to the fathers of the Holy Mountain who were
martyred by the Latin-minded, and anathematizes the pan-heresy of Ecumenism!
What hypocrisy!
These Hierarchs condemn Papism
and confess that it is not a Church, and that the Papists do not have divine
grace, that is, mysteries. Yet these condemnations of Papism are empty of
content, since at the same time they do not condemn Mr. Bartholomew, who
consciously proclaims to the ends of the earth things contrary to these!
Unfortunately, after so many
blasphemies and betrayals of the Phanar, these Bishops continue to commune with
him! Not even one New-Calendarist Bishop has been found — nor will one likely
be found — to cease commemorating Mr. Bartholomew and those who commune with
him. They do not cease commemorating him, and they call this a struggle “within
the walls of the Church,” whereas it means exactly the opposite: they are
within false doctrine and outside the truth!
What do all these things mean?
Quite simply, they constitute a clear picture of the fall of modern shepherds,
who, in comparison with the ancient ones, are a parody of shepherds. They do
not have the zeal and the courage to defend the truth. They are grievous wolves
and abandon the flock into the mouths of the heretics!
With the coming of the Pope to
Greece and with the Council of Crete, it was proven that the Hierarchy of the
Church of Greece is an extinguished volcano, without the flame of the martyrs,
without Jesus Crucified; it is governed by a spirit of cowardice and servile
submission to the spirit of the world, to Caesar—a thing that was confirmed
also during the period of the Coronavirus! This is dangerous for the salvation
of the faithful; it leads them to perdition!
To what extent, then, has it been
captured by Freemasonry? When the Grand Master of the Masons, Mr. Maneas,
publicly declared that Freemasonry has among its ranks members of the
Hierarchy, the Hierarchy of the Church of Greece did not dare to tell him to
present the names of those Hierarchs, nor did it take him to court for slander!
Why?
24. The Athonites
The heresy of Ecumenism began
from alpha, the change of the calendar, and ended at omega, the council of
Crete! Ten decades have passed since this heresy has been continually
bombarding Orthodoxy, and especially its Bishops. Almost all of them have surrendered
with hands raised and have become Ecumenists, with the foremost and most
prominent being the Bishops of the Phanar!
During this period the Athonites
continually try to justify the unjustifiable! They issue fine declarations
about safeguarding Orthodoxy, which they publicly refute by their conduct!
Mount Athos now resembles a purely Ecumenist dependency of the Phanar!
An utter grave-like silence
prevails, with the exception of their reaction against Athenagoras for a few
years! The treacherous actions of this Patriarch then compelled the majority of
the monks to cease commemorating him, most of them publicly.
He departed and Demetrios came to
his place. They called him a lion, and he began, with abundant zeal, to
dismantle even the remaining things that his deceased predecessor had left
behind!
Those who struggle for the
paternal traditions and the sacred dogmas, the Zealots, they consider
schismatics, while at the same time they receive into their Monasteries the …
Cardinals for joint prayer, and even offer them antidoron!
For decades now the Ecumenical
Patriarchate has been mocking them. While it betrays Orthodoxy, at the same
time it praises the Orthodox traditions in its letters to them! The Phanar
mocks the Athonites, and the Athonites mock the people of God, by minimizing
the heterodoxies of Constantinople and exaggerating the shortcomings of the
anti-ecumenist front.
Until when, our beloved fathers,
will you be mocked? Behold, now the time has come for you to realize, even if
belatedly, that the Patriarchate does not turn back from its course toward the
arms of Papism, and those who follow it will inevitably become Uniates!
If in 1978 Fr. George Kapsanis
had said, “the union has almost taken place,” and that the policy of Demetrios,
which continues the policy of Athenagoras, “will not be long before it makes us
Uniates,” today, after the Council of Crete as well, since 46 years have passed
and Bartholomew continues the same and worse policy, has not this policy of his
made you Uniates?
You do not approve of his
treacherous actions. Yes, but is that enough? Never! Words have their place as
a protest at the beginning of evil, perhaps that the heterodox might come to
their senses. However, since decades have now passed and cacodoxy triumphs,
with what justification will you continue to protest without being heard?
Why do you remain completely
indifferent and keep scandalous silence in the face of the cacodoxies that your
Bishop proclaims “with bared head”?
The saints Photios of
Constantinople, Gregory Palamas, and Mark Eugenikos, the accusers of cacodoxy
and advocates of Orthodoxy, are golden lampstands that emit the Orthodox
spiritual light. These lampstands Mr. Bartholomew placed under the bushel, and
thus he stumbled with the feet of his soul upon the stones of Latin—and not
only Latin—cacodoxies! He became an advocate and preacher of cacodoxy, and an
accuser of Orthodoxy.
He is blood-stained; he needs to
be taken to the clinic called the Orthodox Church, so that it may heal the
wounds of his apostasy. You Athonites, help him by ceasing his commemoration;
it is an absolute necessity, otherwise he will be damned! And certainly, so
will those who do not cease to follow him!
In the past, in 1970, you said in
your Memorandum to the Church of Greece: We have endured enough for 22
continuous years the insults and humiliations that proceed from the Throne of
Orthodoxy against the spotless Bride of Christ, the Most Holy Orthodoxy! His
course, which has become completely identified with that of the Ecumenists,
cries out piercingly for their common desire—the destruction of the Unique
Treasury of the Revealed Truth, the Orthodox Church! It is no longer possible,
Most Reverend ones, to speak of “economy for the time being,” when the
intentions and programs of the Ecumenical Throne are exceedingly treacherous
and hostile to the right faith.
But most of you did not then
prove consistent with your signatures; you did not cease the commemoration of
your Patriarch! For the love of Christ, proclaim now, even at the eleventh
hour, the following:
We the Athonites
clearly see that the Church of Christ is being set on fire; our Patriarch
Bartholomew is the chief of its arsonists! He preaches the pan-heresy of
Ecumenism! All his life he bows to the chief of the apostasy, the Pope, and
with a light conscience he has trampled everything! He has taken a divorce from
Orthodoxy!
We melt with
grief as we see him not guarding the Thermopylae! The theater of tolerance and
economy has lasted long enough! How much longer shall we commemorate the
insulter of our holy Fathers! We proclaim an alarm of repentance! Bartholomew
has fallen! Let no one hope that the Phanar will recover its senses.
Whoever wishes
to save his soul, let him immediately cut off every contact with those who
commemorate Bartholomew and with him himself. We remain with the few in the Ark
of Orthodoxy and no longer follow him, who loved the submarine multitude of the
hell of Ecumenism.
The most
shameful sacrilege is being committed—the Uniatisation of the Orthodox Greek
people. Our mouths were shamelessly kept silent for entire decades about the
flagrant canonical crimes and the heresies of our Patriarch, and we followed
him obediently! Now we have grasped the magnitude of the betrayal of our faith
that is being carried out.
Enough now! We
Athonites do not want the Holy Mountain to betray its mission through its
silence in the face of the pan-heresy! It is not pleasing to God for him to
embrace and praise heretics, and for the Athonites to follow him!
The Holy Gospel
tells us not even to say to him “greetings”! Whoever says to him “greetings”
shares in his evil works and becomes an enemy of God and a stranger to the
Orthodox Church.
We monks, whose
task it is not to tolerate innovations in the Gospel, have been called to be
“light to the worldly,” and not—alas—through our communion with heresy to
become darkness and a snare and a stumbling block for them.
Unfortunately,
our speechlessness for so many years, concerning the betrayals of the
Patriarchs Athenagoras, Demetrios, and Bartholomew and their dreadful
blasphemies, did not trouble and did not disturb our conscience. We were almost
silent and were even blessing their apostasy.
We were
commemorating until now a false bishop—may God forgive us for this. The
violence that he wished to use in the summer of 2024 against our brethren of
the Holy Monastery of Esphigmenou was condemned by us. We want to believe that
many faithful have now perceived the heterodox ministry of Mr. Bartholomew
after all these things.
In their
petitions, let the priests add: “for the salvation of Orthodoxy from the
actions of the apostate Patriarch Bartholomew and the rest of the Ecumenists.”
These and so many other things
you should proclaim, our beloved fathers! Consider, therefore, whether your
stance toward the Patriarchs for so many decades now—by which you calmly follow
the false doctrine that is preached—is prudent. Proceed to the God-pleasing
step of your walling-off from the Ecumenists; cry out: we sold our faith; we
exchanged piety for impiety!
***
Epilogue
One hundred years
after the change
Fr. Philotheos Zervakos used to
say: “after most fervent prayer … I received full assurance that we must follow
the festal calendar which the holy fathers handed down to us,” “let us not
consider it insignificant that we follow the papal festal calendar,” and “those
who despise the old festal calendar and follow the new are subject to the
anathema.”
Such voices were not heeded by
the shepherds of the Church, with the result that today the official
authorities of Orthodoxy are held bound in the webs of the poisonous spider of
Ecumenism.
Thus, the Old-Calendarists who
have held the Thermopylae for a hundred years now were fully vindicated! They
struggled so that all these might remain far from the heresy of Ecumenism and
within Orthodoxy. They foresaw the danger and cried out that they had made us
Franks!
How wrong, then, were those who
considered the calendar issue a matter of 13 drops! Indeed, they were 13
drops—but drops of the poison of the pan-heresy of Ecumenism!
The shepherds of the
New-Calendarists threw so much mud and such poison against the Old-Calendarists
that many faithful even fear to greet them! They said, “Let us lie in wait for
the righteous,” the one who confesses Orthodoxy, because he is inconvenient to
us!
They even went so far as to
equate them with various heretics, as the Holy Synod of Crete did in a relevant
Encyclical of 1994! With sacred indignation at that time, Nik. Psaroudakis
commented on this as follows: “When, Your Eminences, among the heretics and the
demon-driven, you mention—indeed first—the ‘zealot’ Old-Calendarists, then it
is clear that the crisis in the present administration of the Church is
beginning to become almost unbridgeable, and the question, ‘Has Orthodoxy been
captured?,’ becomes a nightmare!”
And for the divisions of the
Old-Calendarists they also bear responsibility, because they sent agents among
them. Their divisions, however, in no way justify the non-separation of the
New-Calendarists from the Ecumenists; this is not a theological argument, and
here is why. Let us suppose that there were no Old-Calendarists at all; in that
case what should you New-Calendarists have done?
You ought to have separated from
the traitorous Bartholomews, etc., and to have preferred persecutions and
depositions! Do it now; it is a necessity of obedience to the patristic
teaching of the Confessors of the past. No communion with the Ecumenists. Obedience
to the teaching of the Church and not obedience to church-fighters and
soul-murdering false bishops.
Is it possible for anyone to
reconcile his conscience with their betrayals? Only persons whose consciences
have been hardened or completely lost can do this.
The duty of the faithful is to
defend the Truth; neglect of this duty is equivalent to an act of betrayal that
ranks them among the enemies of the Church. The faithful must not prefer
concord to the Truth.
The responsibility, in the face
of the false doctrine being preached, rests upon all, clergy and laity; it
varies only according to each one’s knowledge and rank.
The Orthodox faithful of the New
Calendar, clergy and laity, who love the truth, today feel betrayed by your
Bishops. Your trust in Bartholomew and in his fellow-travelers has been shaken.
And in combination with the indifference of most clergy and theologians in the
face of the contemporary apostasy, each believer must now himself take
measures, so that he too may not be swept away into the vortex of heresy. The
only safety is the cessation of communion with the false-believing Ecumenists.
Everyone who desires his
salvation, so as not to become jointly responsible and complicit in the
betrayal that is taking place, let him abandon the boat of the Ecumenists; it
is now passing through the gates of hell!
Let us take heed lest we resemble
the foolish virgins of the Gospel! And this will certainly happen if we content
ourselves with our poor “works” and our “rules,” and become indifferent to the
pure faith and confession, which more than at any other time are demanded by
the evil days through which we are passing.
The cessation of our communion
with Bishops who do not speak the truth does not separate us from the Church.
The truth keeps us in the Church, and not our administrative dependence on some
center that does not speak the truth. For this reason also, Saint Gregory
Palamas wrote to his opponents: “Those who are with the truth are with the
Church, and those who are not with the truth are not with the Church either.”
The saints never abandoned the
Church; this is impossible, since they struggled for its truth. Yet they did
abandon their thrones and cut off communion with the heterodox. These are the
ones the faithful have as their guides, and they do not wish to be within a
Church that denies its uniqueness—and such, they say, is the Church of
Patriarch Bartholomew and the rest of the Ecumenists; for this reason, they
sever communion with them.
This departure must take place,
because heresy cuts a person off from God. Almsgiving, and all our social work,
do not save us so long as we are in communion with heresy.
The simple people show great
aversion toward the Jehovah’s Witnesses, because they are heretics. Such
aversion the Bishops also ought to show toward all heretics, Papists,
Protestants, Monophysites, etc. Unfortunately, however, they embrace them and
tell them lies, that they are going well and will be saved.
We have one life and one soul.
Every day and hour that passes in communion with heresy brings us ever closer
to uncertainty about our soul’s salvation. Far, far away, my brothers, from
this sect of the Ecumenists!
This is what the faithful always
did throughout the course of history, when the heretics held the Churches and
they were being profaned by them. So as not to be defiled, they gathered
separately from them, even in their homes, and prayed. Behold the exhortation
of the Church through the mouth of Saint Athanasios: when the shepherds
scandalize the people — as today with the Pan-Religion and with Ecumenism —
then it is beneficial for the faithful to gather and pray without them rather
than be cast together with them into the Gehenna of fire.
With the change of the
Ecclesiastical calendar in 1924, a terrible storm broke out in the Church;
today, a hundred years later, we are drowning in the stormy sea of the
pan-heresy of Ecumenism and of the Pan-Religion! In order to be saved, let us
cry out to our Lord with all the strength of our soul: “Master, save us, we are
perishing”!
Greek source: https://krufo-sxoleio.blogspot.com/2026/02/blog-post_18.html
