Nine Years Since the “Synod” of Crete

Mihai‑Silviu Chirilă | June 29, 2025

 

The nine years since the Pseudo-synod of Crete, from June 2016, have shown—both through the manner in which it was conducted and through the subsequent outcomes and consequences—how “great” and “holy” it was. Beginning with the non-participation of four local Churches—those of Russia, Antioch, Georgia, and Bulgaria—with the division created over the hierarchs who signed and those who did not sign the drafted documents, and continuing with the current situation created on the Orthodox level between the Patriarchate of Moscow and that of Constantinople, with the disaster brought upon the Canonical Church of Ukraine and the state of war between Russia and Ukraine, one can deduce what the hidden motives of this pseudo-synod were, which, through its conduct and consequences, revealed who Patriarch Bartholomew is, along with his initiators and supporters, headed by Patriarch Daniel [of Romania], in the entire issue and fate of Orthodoxy today.

What was not achieved through “theological” and “ecumenical” means at Crete was successfully achieved, quite conveniently, through fratricidal war, through inter-Orthodox schism, and through measures of persecution identical to those of the atheist-communist regime before 1990, in the territory of Ukraine, sacrificed both militarily and religiously. More precisely, the events of force majeure have revealed the true face of those artisans who planned, under the cover of a “synod,” for Orthodoxy to officially become what, evidently, it has now become—through schism and through war.

What was also intended through the works of the “synod”—the legalization of LGBT—and was not effectively achieved at that time, is now being freely practiced, with the legal approval of all governments in Orthodox states, through gay parades, around the greatest and holiest feasts, without the local Churches having any power to intervene or influence the respective governments or parliaments to change anything. Therefore, the 2016 Synod of Crete, considered and still regarded as valid by the participants, has neither the power nor the capacity to intervene in extremely serious matters concerning what is being undertaken against Orthodoxy—indeed, it even generates them. A conclusive example: the creation of the schismatic “Church” of Ukraine, with the direct involvement of Patriarch Bartholomew, with bloodshed, the seizure of hundreds of churches, and the vandalization and profanation of holy places belonging to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

And on the part of the Romanian Patriarchate, headed by Patriarch Daniel, the initiation of an extremely vile and shameful undertaking: the drawing of Romanian priests from Northern Bukovina, from the Metropolis of Chernivtsi, to uncanonically transfer into the jurisdiction of the Romanian Patriarchate. That is all Patriarch Daniel learned through his studies in the West and from the works and decisions of the “Synod” of Crete. Not only “politically correct,” but also “ecumenistically correct.” Regarding the violence and profanation of the Cathedral in Chernivtsi on June 17, 2025, there are no documents, no qualifying articles, and no solutions of resolution coming from the “Synod” of Crete, the “great and holy” one.

[See: https://spzh.eu/en/zashhita-very/86839-what-does-the-attempted-seizure-of-the-cathedral-in-chernivtsi-mean]

Only silence and handwashing. Also learned at Crete. The theoretical stake of the Synod of Crete was fulfilled and has been seen, concretely realized in everything that has taken place in Orthodoxy since 2018, through Bartholomew’s Tomos—for the schism in Ukraine—and since 2019, through the COVID-19 experiment on a global scale.

Unprecedented situations in which no principle elaborated in Crete had any saving effect, and on a pan-Orthodox level there occurred apostasy upon apostasy, both civic and religious. The alleged slogan “let us fight from within, not from outside the Church” proved to be compromise upon compromise in order to reach exactly where it was meant to reach. To collapses and disasters which now seem even irreversible. It has reached the stage where the leadership of the world and that of the Church have come under the same master, with a few exceptions.

Compromises at the level of the Right Faith, in the form of heresy, schisms, and religious division, always bring about crises and disasters at the socio-economic and military level. Thus, we have arrived at all that is seen today. But only for those who have eyes to see, in the Light and with the Grace of Faith. For the rest, everything is reduced to what they see and hear on propagandistic televisions and on poisoned websites.

For the religious crisis and the heresies of the 6th and 7th centuries, our Savior Jesus Christ intended to destroy the world. But the Mother of God and three other great saints prayed and persuaded Him not to destroy it. As punishment, however, a scourge was prepared for Asia Minor and other Orthodox countries: the Muslim invasion. Some remained in bondage for 400 years. Constantinople still is to this day. Take heed!

 

Romanian source: https://www.marturisireaortodoxa.ro/noua-ani-de-la-sinodul-din-creta/