Open Letter to the Ecumenical Arch-Heresiarch Bartholomew

January 1, 2026
The Circumcision in the Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ
Commemoration of Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia

Vasiliki Oikonomou, Alexandroupoli

Dedicated to my Saint, Basil the Great the Revealer of Heavenly Mysteries, and to all the Saints and God-bearing Fathers of our Church who have been reviled by the impious Patriarch Bartholomew.

 

 

Open Letter
To the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Cc: Holy Permanent Synod of the Church of Greece,
Holy Metropolis of Alexandroupoli

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“But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.” 2 Timothy 3:13

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“They [the Christians] must not forget that all roads lead to God. And they must accept that this bold idea of free thought, which we can truly call a revolution, flowing forth from our Masonic lodges, has wondrously spread over the dome of Saint Peter.” […] “We can say that Ecumenism is the legitimate son of Freemasonry […] Let it not be said that Masonry is the ‘anti-Church’; this is only an occasional position. Masonry basically intends to become a ‘super-Church’: the Church that unites them all […] Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, Israelites, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, free-thinkers and free-believers are for us only our small names; our family name is Freemasonry.”

—Baron Yves Marsaudon (high-ranking Mason and Emeritus Minister of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta), “Ecumenism as seen by a traditional Mason” (Yves Marsaudon, L’Œcuménisme vu par un franc-maçon de tradition, Vitiano editions, l’Horizon International, 1964, pp. 119–121).

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“After not even two years had passed, Leo the Isaurian became emperor, also called Conon, in the year 716, who, being an iconoclast, violently expelled with clubs and swords the most holy and great Patriarch, Saint Germanos, from the Patriarchate, because he would not consent to agree with his impious doctrines and to abolish the veneration of the holy icons. Not only did the wretch do this, but the beast-named man hastened to destroy and burn the holy icon of Christ our God, which stood above the gate of Constantinople, called the Chalke Gate. Thus, when the emperor’s spatharios set up a ladder and climbed up to cast the holy icon to the ground, immediately the blessed Theodosia (a nun), together with other pious women, seized the ladder and threw it down to the ground along with the spatharios, who, having fallen to the earth, died. Then, going to the Patriarchate, they stoned the impious and iconoclast (Patriarch of Constantinople) Anastasios.”

—from the Synaxarion of the Holy Venerable Martyr Theodosia of Constantinople (Synaxarion of Saint Nikodemos the Hagiorite).

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“The fish does not resist the law of God, and we, who are men of saving doctrines, do not tolerate opposition.”

— St. Basil the Great, Hexaemeron VII, 4.

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You have managed, O Devil, to drag the immaculate and ever-virginal Orthodoxy into the stinking brothels of heresies—especially into the most abominable of all, the Vatican. You have managed to disgrace her Holy Canons, casting them as prey to the teeth of grievous wolves and as a plaything in the hands of the senseless and lawless. You have managed to have blasphemy uttered from a patriarchal mouth—that the defiled Koran of the most defiled Islam of the pederast Mohammed is “equal to the Holy Scripture and sacred like it.” O, blood of the Holy New Martyrs, how do you not pour forth to drown the Phanar!!!

You have managed, O Satan, to disgrace the Orthodox Hierarchy—honored with the sweat and blood of Holy Apostles, God-bearing Ecumenical Teachers, Hieromartyrs, and Confessors—within the wretched and thrice-accursed Synagogue of the Christ-killing Jews. You have managed to drag the archiepiscopal vestment into idolatrous joint prayers (“…each of us to his own god…”) with a motley crowd of infidels and heretics… before a ball (!!!) symbolizing the globe… the beloved Gaia of the Masons. You have managed to defile the Holy Places and the all-sacred Patriarchal Church of the once-Queen City with the footsteps of unbaptized pseudo-popes of the bloodstained Harlot Rome, accompanied by godless Patriarchs—Arch-Heresiarchs, who no longer stand in the place and type of Christ, but of Antichrist.

You have managed, O Lucifer, to disgrace the sacred Symbol of our Faith, to have it distorted in profane ceremonies by impious lips, who pronounced “suffered” (pathonta) as “she who suffered” (pathousa)—was that by chance, perhaps? You disgraced this Symbol, which the All-Holy Spirit established through the sweat and blood of the Holy and God-bearing Fathers of our Church—those whom certain blasphemers consider and call “victims of the primordial evil serpent.” You have managed to drag our holy Church into the foul and indecent dance of the “World Council of Churches,” even to the point that heresies were “recognized” as Churches in a robber pseudo-council. You have managed to disgrace even Orthodox monasticism—the bloodstained yet glorious bastion of Orthodoxy—to such a degree that an uncanonical, coenobitic monastery of men and women was praised as a “new polity” and a “new upper room of Pentecost,” whose emblem was and remains the seven-branched candlestick of the Christ-killing Jews united with the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ—an emblem that is a great symbol of the global movement for the union of Christianity and Judaism. These and many other abominations you have accomplished, O Lucifer, through your most faithful servant and greatest delight, the Ecumenical Arch-Heresiarch Bartholomew.

They erected for you, Patriarch, a black—pitch black—statue there in far-off, heresy-tainted Melbourne. You sat and had your photo taken next to it, joyful, proud. Thus black and dark, gloomy and shadowy will you also appear before the incorruptible eyes of our righteous Judge, Christ. For decades now you have tormented the Ark of our holy Church, deliberately casting it into storms and reefs. Your patriarchate is a festering gangrene, a plague, a famine, and a scourge—shame, disgrace, and reproach for the Orthodox, a pitiful festival of demons.

Woe and alas to you when Christ the Judge comes, you Pharisaical hypocrite, who pretend to care about the “environment,” while your blasphemous and profane crimes provoke divine chastisements! It is not I who say this—the Old and New Testaments declare it in many places, which you distort. One need only read the twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy or the Revelation of John to see how great is the wrath of God provoked by apostasy from the Lord.

Woe and alas to you, “stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart,” who “always resist the Holy Spirit”! Your archierarchal hands—those same hands that offer Christ in every Divine Liturgy—you have cold-bloodedly stained with the blood of the persecuted Ukrainian Orthodox Church (under the canonical Metropolitan Onuphry). And behold now, this sister Church of ours is being fiercely persecuted and declared illegal in its very earthly homeland, while your lawless and antichrist (philo-)Jewish friends have declared as legal the (philo-)Nazi and (philo-)satanist “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” the pseudo-church composed of “unrepentant deposed, anathematized, and unordained persons, of unlawful assemblies and schismatics,” as described by the four Greek Metropolitans who petitioned for the convocation of a Pan-Orthodox Synod on this matter—yet you, the “Pope of the East,” arrogantly disregarded them!

Woe and alas to you, O profaner, who dared to allow the schismatic pseudo-metropolitan of Kiev, Epiphanius, not only to enter the all-sacred Patriarchal Church, but also to stand upon the Ecumenical Throne—honored by a Theologian and a Chrysostom!

Woe to you, traitor of Christ, who dare to give the Body and Blood of our Lord, the Holy Chalice, to the mouths of the unbaptized heretics, schismatics, and the rest of the assembly of those of corrupt doctrine, who are not even members of our Church! It is not I who say that all these are outside the Church—the 68th Apostolic Canon says it: “If any bishop, or presbyter, or deacon receives a second ordination from anyone, let both him and the one who ordained him be deposed—unless it be proven that he received the ordination from heretics. For those who have been baptized or ordained by such persons cannot be either faithful or clergy.”

It is also stated in the Canon of the Council of Carthage (under Saint Cyprian): “…we firmly and securely hold that no one can be baptized outside the Catholic Church, since there is one baptism, and it exists only within the Catholic Church… And how can water be cleansed and sanctified by one who is himself unclean and in whom the Holy Spirit is not present? …How can he who baptizes grant forgiveness of sins to another, when he himself is unable to lay aside his own sins outside the Church? …A heretic cannot sanctify oil, who has neither an altar nor a Church… But we, who are with the Lord and hold to the unity of the Lord, and who are granted according to His worthiness, serving His priesthood in the Church, must reject, renounce, and cast away all that the adversaries of Him—that is, the enemies and antichrists—do, and we must regard them as profane.”

And in our own times, it is denounced, among others, by the great Theologian and Confessor, Saint Justin Popović: “All these pseudo-Christianities, all these pseudo-churches, are nothing other than one heresy next to another. Their common evangelical name is pan-heresy,” and: “Ecumenism is a common name for the pseudo-Christianities, for the pseudo-churches of Western Europe. Within it lies the heart of all the European humanisms, headed by Papism.” (Archim. Justin Popović, The Orthodox Church and Ecumenism, Thessaloniki, 1974, p. 224).

Or do you perhaps ignore that, “Papism has been condemned many times by the Synods of 867, 879, 1009, 1054, 1341, 1347, 1351, 1440, 1441, 1443, 1450, 1484, 1722, 1727, 1838, 1848, 1895, as well as by many Saints such as Saint Photios the Great, the holy Theophylact, Saint Gregory Palamas, Symeon of Thessaloniki, Saint Mark of Ephesus, Saint Nikodemos the Hagiorite, and Saint Nektarios,” as written in a study by the ever-memorable Metropolitan Ambrose of Eleutheroupolis?

Do you forget what happened at the first Fall of the Queen City in 1204, when the rabid, bloodthirsty criminal Crusaders, with the blessings of the pseudo-pope Innocent III, devastated, plundered, stole, desecrated, defiled, raped, and slaughtered—worse even than the later conquering Turks? Do you forget the atrocities of the papal-Nazi Ustaše organization in Orthodox Serbia during the Second World War and the other abominations of Uniatism and of Papism in general? Only the naïve and deceitful hypocrites believe and accept the supposed repentance and apology of the modern pseudo-popes for the crimes of their predecessors. And it seems that your “acceptance of the apology” from the pseudo-pope John Paul II for the events of 1204 served as yet another step in the downward path toward union with the Papists, since you yourself declared that: “The spirit of reconciliation of the Resurrection… urges us toward the reconciliation of our Churches.”

Woe to you, deceitful and treacherous serpent, who seek to unite the Paschal reckoning of the Orthodox with that of the Papists! What part have you with the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ—you, the servant and laborer of Hades? Do you think we do not see that you do not truly care about the Paschal issue, but rather about the erosion of the Orthodox Faith and the union—even of the Chalice itself—with the Papists, or rather its formalization? Or do you imagine we believed that the Papists have renounced the Filioque, supposedly because the Creed was recited without it?

Woe to you—worthy of deposition and excommunication!

Yes! For you are excommunicated by the 10th Canon of the Holy Apostles:

“If anyone shall pray, even in a house, with one who is excommunicated, let him also be excommunicated.”

You are deposed and excommunicated by the 45th Canon of the Holy Apostles:

“A bishop, or presbyter, or deacon who has prayed with heretics shall be excommunicated only; but if he has permitted them to perform any clerical function, let him be deposed.”

You are deposed by the 46th Canon of the Holy Apostles:

“We order that a bishop or presbyter who has accepted the baptism or sacrifice of heretics be deposed. For what concord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has the believer with an unbeliever?”

You are deposed and excommunicated by the 65th Canon of the Holy Apostles:

“If any cleric or layman enters a synagogue of Jews or heretics to pray, let him be deposed and excommunicated.”

Will you now tell us that the Holy Apostles—the Disciples of Christ Himself—were also “victims of the primordial evil serpent”?

You are anathematized by the Synodikon of Orthodoxy in many places, such as where it declares: “To those who do not with pure faith, and with simple and wholehearted heart, accept the wondrous miracles of our Savior and God, and of our Most Pure Lady Theotokos who bore Him, and of the other Saints, but who attempt with proofs and sophistic arguments to slander them as impossible, or to misinterpret them according to what seems right to them, and to establish them according to their own opinion: anathema.” Did you not also consent—as did the treacherous, pan-heretical, ecumenistic Holy Synod of Greece and most local Metropolitans of the Church of Greece—to the closing of our holy churches during the pseudo-pandemic of the coronavirus, instead of urging the faithful people and the rulers to turn to the all-powerful, healing, and protective Grace of our Holy Triune God? Did you not also blaspheme and dishonor the holy Icons by imposing and enforcing mask-wearing within the holy churches during the so-called “health crisis”? Did we not see you reverencing an Icon while wearing a mask, as if it were a source of infection? For the honor of the holy Icons, the blood of Orthodox Martyrs and Confessors was shed for more than one hundred years, O Arch-Heresiarch. Or have you perhaps forgotten that the holy church is sanctified by the All-Holy Spirit Himself, Who makes it, through a special prayer pronounced by a Bishop from the Great Euchologion, a “...haven for the storm-tossed, a hospital for the afflicted, a refuge for the sick, a place of flight for demons…”?

You are called a false bishop and a false teacher by the 15th Canon of the Council held in Constantinople (the First-Second Synod under Saint Photius the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople): “…For those who, on account of some heresy condemned by the holy Synods or by the Holy Fathers, separate themselves from communion with their president (that is, bishop), when he publicly preaches the heresy and teaches it openly in the Church with boldness, such persons are not only not subject to canonical penalty, for separating themselves from communion with the so-called bishop before a synodal decision, but they shall also be deemed worthy of the honor due to the Orthodox. For they have not condemned bishops, but false bishops and false teachers; and they have not torn apart the unity of the Church by schism, but have rather been zealous to deliver the Church from schisms and divisions.”

How could you not want, then, O Great Luciferian Teacher of Ecumenism, to abolish the Holy Canons, since they are an obstacle to the precipice into which, as a fool, you are trying to cast our holy Orthodoxy? That is why, even from early on—as an Archimandrite already—you undertook (of your own will? The Lord knows…) this unholy task, as is shown by your doctoral dissertation titled “On the Codification of the Holy Canons and the Canonical Ordinances in the Orthodox Church.”

Woe and alas to you, when the Great High Priest Jesus Christ will judge you, you old Mason, sacrilegious and unrepentant, whom not even the nearness of the grave makes afraid! And “I couldn’t care less” whether you wear an apron or not (or how many degrees your filthy apron has…), since you carry out the foul work of Freemasonry—and indeed more than enough! “I couldn’t care less” as well if you drag me before bought-off courts, supposedly for “defamatory libel,” you who defame holy Orthodoxy, the Orthodox Hierarchy, even our very Holy Triune God throughout the world! Only one Court concerns me—the Court of my righteous Judge, my Lord Jesus Christ—not the Mason-controlled pseudo-courts of men, which allow genocidal criminals to walk free (and indeed handsomely paid!), such as your “beloved” person, the justly and canonically excommunicated man-slayer Mason tyrant Kyriakos Mitsotakis. But you, who for decades blaspheme the All-Holy Spirit with your false doctrines and your impenitence and lead countless souls to perdition—what account will you give, descendant of Judas Iscariot? Your wretched Papist, Lutheran, Monophysite, Jewish, Mohammedan, Indian, Shaman, Buddhist, and other motley unbaptized friends, whom you love and with whom your father the Devil wants to unite us—if they were to repent and receive Holy Baptism and Holy Chrismation and faithfully and humbly follow the Gospel, they would be saved; but you, baptized and chrismated, and even honored with the only true—the Orthodox—Hierarchy, which in arrogance you betray and disgrace without repentance, where will you end up—have you ever thought about it, pitiable one? Behold, the Revelation tells you: “And the beast was seized, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs in its presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. And the rest were slain by the sword of Him who sat upon the horse, the sword that came from His mouth; and all the birds were filled with their flesh” (Rev. 19:20–21). There is where the darkening of your pan-heretical mind and your hardened heart is leading you. But, as the Revelation says again, “you have a name that you live, and you are dead” (3:1). Do the dead repent?

As for the Vatican of your “most holy” friend, the deluded pseudo-pope, it too will meet the same end as his homeland—“Babylon,” the “mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth,” the one who “was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus” (Rev. 17:5, 6)—the Harlot Rome: “…Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every unclean spirit, a haunt of every unclean and detestable bird. For all the nations have drunk the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her… for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities… and in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.” (Rev. 18:2–3, 5, 24) Indeed, Rome is bloodstained! Behold, then, something in common between your beloved Rome and your beloved Islam: they have drenched the planet—and especially Orthodoxy—in blood.

I wish, I hope, and I pray that all of us—the Christian people, the baptized Orthodox Christians—may come to repentance from our apostasy and worldliness, so that we may no longer compel the philanthropic Author of our Faith, the Lord Jesus Christ, to chastise us with ecclesiastical leaders–traitors like you, or like Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, Anthimos of Alexandroupoli, and the other unworthy Hierarchs who afflict holy Orthodoxy. You are the worst, the most heretical, the most satanic Patriarch the Church has known since her foundation. Macedonius, Nestorius, Bekkos, Kalekas, and the other Patriarchs condemned by the Church pale in comparison to you. This open letter is, in truth, a letter to a pitiable man. Beyond my holy indignation for your betrayal and humiliation of my holy Faith, my soul weeps for what awaits you where you are headed—because of the unspeakable evil that Satan has caused and continues to cause in the Church and throughout all humanity through your “humble person,” which “rejoices and takes pride” as his faithful and tireless instrument.

Christ is still granting you time on this earth, O Arch-Heresiarch. And the Synodikon of Orthodoxy warns you: “To all heretics: Anathema, Anathema, Anathema.”

As for your repentance—I do not know if I can still hope for it, now that your heart and conscience have become so hardened, standing one step away from the grave. If, however, you remain unrepentant, I wholeheartedly await your most just deposition before God and men—as well as that of all those like you—even if it be posthumously. Amen.

“Incline Thine ear to the hymns of Thy servants, O Benefactor, humbling the haughty brow of the Enemy…”

Vasiliki Oikonomou

To the glory of the Most-Holy Triune God “whom you persecute.”

 

Greek source: https://apotixisi.blogspot.com/2026/01/1-2026.html