EDITOR’S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). If you just search “Pompeo – Bartholomew” you will come up with countless photos of the two, and the same holds true with the rest of the “hierarchy.”… I do not know how many times in the last few years this “Deep State rat” was honored by the Patriarchate, GOA and the Archons… They are now devastated… Worse of all was Pompeo’s central role in Ukraine’s disaster: He was behind all significant decisions and was the most prominent proponent for autocephaly… As the Ukrainian Orthodox Journalists suggest, he was the actual lobbyist for Epihanios and OCU…
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Trump refuses to include OCU lobbyist Mike Pompeo in his team
Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Mike Pompeo personally oversaw the creation and international recognition of the OCU.
Donald Trump announced that there would be no place for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley in his future administration. The newly elected president wrote this in his Truth Social account, thanking them for their service: “I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our Country.”
Mike Pompeo, who served as Secretary of State and head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during Trump’s first term, played a key role in foreign policy matters. One of the projects he oversaw was supporting the creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). In 2021, while still Secretary of State, Pompeo stated that he personally contributed to the international recognition of the OCU and made efforts for the United States to support this process. Additionally, the former Secretary of State is one of the most well-known advocates of a tougher stance on Russia, while increasing military assistance to Ukraine. American media previously reported that he was expected to become Secretary of Defense under Trump.
As reported by the Union of Orthodox Journalists, Mike Pompeo believes that authorities should “push” the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) out of Ukraine.
Does Bartholomew suffer from the “Stockholm syndrome”, in addition to the multitude of other “spiritual ailments” he has publicly flaunted over the years?
Why would a Patriarch keep photographing himself with the person who called archbishop Demetrios to his office for a “discussion to persuade” Constantinople to grant autocephaly to Epiphanios, which resulted in Schism within Orthodoxy?
Maybe he also suffers from severe hearing loss in his old age, and he totally misheard the deacon’s phrase back in 2018 as “let us bow our heads to Pompeo”, instead of “to the Lord”…(both words have 3 syllables in Greek, both end in an “omega” immediately following an accented vowel in the dative case declension}…
Either way, the “Green Patriarch” can easily be renamed with a new epithet by Church historians in the future… Βαρθολομαιος ο Ουκρανοκτονος (“butcher of the Ukraine”)…by serving a “second master”, destroying the unity of the Church and the faith, and granting autocephaly to a group of people that for the first 27 years of his tenure he fully agreed with Moscow were Schismatics and “illegitimate”/defrocked clergy…the worst part is, the overwhelming majority of the Synod of Constantinople, as well as large portions of the Synods of Greece/Cyprus/Alexandria (Bart’s buddies) seem to have bowed their heads as well, exposing a treasonous, schismatic “spirit of cowardice” (πνευμα δειλiας), that Tradition teaches us makes any Christian, let alone clergy, “unworthy” (αναξιος) of Christ, the TRUE MASTER. None of them said “Στωμεν Καλως” to end this destructive ecclesiastical landslide…
οὐ γὰρ ἔδωκεν ἡμῖν ὁ θεὸς πνεῦμα δειλίας ἀλλὰ δυνάμεως καὶ ἀγάπης καὶ σωφρονισμοῦ – 2 Tim 1:7
And here’s some interesting trivia…if a clergyman is responsible for a situation (let’s say a car accident) that directly results in the death of another human, he can no longer serve in the altar, because he directly or indirectly caused the death of another human (that’s in our ecclesiastical Tradition & Canons), whether secular courts convict him of wrongdoing or not. Can anyone correlate this concept to Bartholomew’s meddling in the Ukraine and do a quick body count, at least of people that got killed trying to defend church property belonging to Ounoufrios’ juridiction? This concept can easily extend to all clergy that supported Bartholomew, and concelebrated with Epiphanios, in theory… But if the spiritual courts are “packed” with like-minded individuals, the offenders are never prosecuted… Judgement Day won’t be very pretty, folks…
Very well said, Marko!
The OCU is going to go the way of the Living Church during the Soviet Union: I.e., go extinct
It was a geopolitical creation just like the OCU and nothing like that can stand
Except THIS TIME the EP needs to be held accountable by the Church which was it was not done after the Living Church cause Russia was too weak
Interestingly, the EP supported the heretical “living church” of Russia during soviet times. The disease is not new, it is just more and more pronounced.
“Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”
IC XC NIKA
It never ceases to amaze me how Bartholomew’s insecurities cause him to always hitch his wagon to so many falling stars.