EDITOR’S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Acting like the globalist pawn he truly is, and having “achieved” a total mess in Ukraine where violence and religious prosecution by the “democratic” Zelensky government has returned the country to medieval times, Pat. Bartholomew is now visiting Lithuania to make another mess of about 100.000 Orthodox living there… Maybe his goal is the two million Lithuanian Catholics?… After all, in two years, he plans to re-unify with the Catholic Church…
A look at the map will convince you that the sole purpose of this trip by the Patriarch is to “poke the bear”… So far, the bear is growling and displaying her teeth for all to see… When she starts biting, there will be no place to hide… We are already hearing rumors that the “Ottomans” in Ankara will not allow another “election” of a new Patriarch… What is to stop them? Nobody stopped them from turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque last year…
The Russians and Putin, who in 2015 imposed on the Turks the re-opening of the historic Panagia Sumela monastery in Pontos (Eastern Turkey), will not move a finger… Not only that, but they will gladly see the Turks put Bartholomew in his rightful place… After all, the Turks seem to have reoriented East for good…
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visits Lithuania
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew pays a three-day official visit to the Republic of Lithuania from Monday, March 20, 2023, at the invitation of the Prime Minister of the country, Ingrida Šimonytė.
The Ecumenical Patriarch arrived on Monday afternoon at the Vilnius Capital International Airport, where, on behalf of the Government, the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Egidijus Meilūnas, welcomed him together with officials.
He was also welcomed by Gregory Karachalios, Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic to the country, and Mehmet Apak, Deputy Head of the Diplomatic Mission of the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey.
During his stay, the Ecumenical Patriarch will have private meetings with the President of the Republic of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda, Prime Minister Šimonytė, President of Parliament Viktorija Čmilytė-Nilsen, Government officials, and other high-ranking officials, as well as with Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vilnius Gintaras Grušas, President of the PK Episcopal Assemblies of Europe.
He will also lay a wreath at the Monument to the Fallen in the Struggle for Lithuanian Independence, attend and speak at the opening of an international conference organized by the European People’s Party, and meet with Orthodox priests and representatives of the Greek, Ukrainian and Belarusian Orthodox Communities.
The Ecumenical Patriarch is accompanied by the Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon and Metropolitan Arsenios of Austria, Grand Ecclesiarch Aetios, Director of the Private Patriarchal Office, and Secondary Alexandros, and Nikolaos-Georgios Papachristou, Director of the Press and Communication Office of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
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Επίσημη πρώτη επίσκεψη του Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχου κ. Βαρθολομαίου στην Λιθουανία
Η Α.Θ. Παναγιότης ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης κ.κ. Βαρθολομαίος πραγματοποιεί από σήμερα, Δευτέρα, 20 Μαρτίου 2023, τριήμερη επίσημη επίσκεψη στη Δημοκρατία της Λιθουανίας, κατόπιν προσκλήσεως της Πρωθυπουργού της χώρας Εξοχ. κυρίας Ingrida Šimonytė.
Ο Παναγιώτατος αφίχθη νωρίτερα το απόγευμα στον Διεθνή Αερολιμένα της Πρωτεύουσας Βίλνιους, όπου εκ μέρους της Κυβερνήσεως τον υποδέχθηκε ο Εξοχ. Υφυπουργός Εξωτερικών κ. Egidijus Meilūnas, μαζί με υπηρεσιακούς παράγοντες. Τον καλωσόρισαν, επίσης, ο Εξοχ. κ. Γρηγόριος Καραχάλιος, Πρέσβης της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας στην χώρα, και ο Εντιμ. κ. Mehmet Apak, Αναπληρωτής επί κεφαλής της Διπλωματικής Αποστολής της Πρεσβείας της Τουρκικής Δημοκρατίας.
Κατά την παραμονή του ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης θα έχει κατ᾽ ιδίαν συναντήσεις με τον Εξοχ. Πρόεδρο της Δημοκρατίας της Λιθουανίας κ. Gitanas Nausėda, την Εξοχ. Πρωθυπουργό κυρία Šimonytė, την Εξοχ. Πρόεδρο του Κοινοβουλίου κυρία Viktorija Čmilytė-Nilsen, στελέχη της Κυβερνήσεως, και άλλους υψηλόβαθμους παράγοντες, καθώς και με τον Σεβ. Ρωμαιοκαθολικό Αρχιεπίσκοπο Βίλνιους κ. Gintaras Grušas, Πρόεδρο των ΡΚ Επισκοπικών Συνελεύσεων της Ευρώπης.
Επίσης, θα καταθέσει στεφάνι στο Μνημείο των Πεσόντων στον Αγώνα της Λιθουανικής Ανεξαρτησίας, θα παραστεί και θα ομιλήσει κατά την έναρξη διεθνούς συνεδρίου που διοργανώνει το Ευρωπαϊκό Λαϊκό Κόμμα, και θα συναντηθεί με Ορθοδόξους Ιερείς και τους εκπροσώπους της Ελληνικής, της Ουκρανικής και της Λευκορωσικής Ορθοδόξου Κοινότητας.
Τον Παναγιώτατο συνοδεύουν οι Σεβ. Μητροπολίτες Γέρων Χαλκηδόνος κ. Εμμανουήλ και Αυστρίας κ. Αρσένιος, οι Πανοσιολ. Μ. Εκκλησιάρχης κ. Αέτιος, Διευθυντής του Ιδιαιτέρου Πατριαρχικού Γραφείου, και Δευτερεύων κ. Αλέξανδρος, και ο Εντιμ. κ. Νικόλαος-Γεώργιος Παπαχρήστου, Διευθυντής του Γραφείου Τύπου και Επικοινωνίας του Οικουμενικού Πατριαρχείου.
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And what about the 5 defrocked priests?
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1940850/constantinople-patriarch-to-visit-lithuania-next-week
Κακός άνθρωπος χωρίς αγάπη μέσα του
συνεχώς κάνει ζημιά στην Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία την οποίαν του ενεπιστεύθησαν
Το ένα του πόδι είναι στο λάκο και ακόμη
συνεχίζει τον διχασμό .
Αλήθεια δεν έχει καθρέφτη; , είναι για να τον λυπάσαι. Μέχρι να φύγει…..θα κάνει και
άλλη ζημιά.
“We are already hearing rumors that the “Ottomans” in Ankara will not allow another “election” of a new Patriarch”
I think this might be for the best. The EP needs to be suppressed for the foreseeable future. Maybe then the Churches of Greece, Cyprus & Alexandria finally be free.
YES!
Look as already said if erdogan and the Turks stop another election ,surely we will thank God for the great mercy of the Turk in saving Orthodoxy ,as they did after 1453.
And Greece will be millions of euros richer for its own people .
These parasites of the Phanar are just trying to grab as many local Orthodox communities as they can under their belt , to get at the money. That is all they care about.
The next so called patriarch is
m/s Emmanuela or Elpidoktonos ,so take yr pick. Maybe if Emmanuella ,the Bulgarians will get a special invite to the after party. ?? Entry code supplied. Eh!!
But there is a wider and more serious issue here. And I know that Jacquie M thinks I am attacking her . But I am not . And that is she is totally on the ball.
That is we are missing in all our discussions ,the question of a living faith. A living spirituality,not a political game.
And it’s because we only live Orthodoxy as a political game and not as life changing Christian faith ,that our children walk away from what they see as corrupt and irrelevant and dead.
I urge all of you to learn about Saint Bishop Surgeon Luke of Crimea . There is a film of his martyrific and Christian life on the web one can see and his autobiography ” I learned to love suffering’! obtainable from Amazon.
He was a renowned doctor and surgeon with research, practice under the most horrendous situations, and books on purelent and eye surgery used til today. And a bishop of the Ukrainian orthodox church who suffered much beyond what we can even imagine in ever witnessing to Christ under Stalin . And would ban clergy for 4 months from the altar If they shaved or cut their hair or wore non- clerical dress.
An antidote. to what we experience today.
Just like in Estonia, and Ukraine, and only God knows where else the bishop of Istanbul will make his next bonehead move!
The Turks will be doing us a favor if they make this EP the last one. A dead see does not need a bishop. And certainly not the dozens of effete slovenly characters that constitute the Fanar.
Too, Too much Flamboyance – more down to earth conservatism needed– Less wokeisms– No, Irene– No more of “Love is Love” wokeness-“IBAGS” “IBAGS”–“It’s Boys and Girls Stupid!”
He is of the same intellectual, spiritual, mental level as that of his “boss” Pope Francis . He does not represent the Orthodox Church in any way and it is a sacrilege how most of the Patriarchates, and Archdioceses (including the “Church” of Greece bow before him. Apostasy.