On May 24, U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople to discuss the upcoming visit of the patriarch to Washington and the role of Constantinople in Ukraine and “across the wider Orthodox world”.
“It is always a great honour for me to see his All-Holiness. This was an especially important conversation between us because we were able to discuss the plans for welcoming his All-Holiness in Washington D.C. this autumn,” Pyatt said in statements after the meeting. “This will be the first visit by the Ecumenical Patriarch to the United States in about a decade and it will come at particularly important moment in the life of the Church. Of course, there will be a new archbishop in North America and I was able to convey to his All-Holiness the great enthusiasm for the arrival of Elpidophoros as the new Archbishop of North America and our commitment at the governmental level to doing all that is appropriate to help him begin his mission successfully in the United States.”
After emphasizing the importance of the moment and the close US ties with Constantinople, Pyatt moved to the current agenda.
The diplomat said that he and Bartholomew were also able to talk about “the critically important role that the Ecumenical Patriarch plays as a religious leader on a variety of other issues, in the Middle East, of course in the Ukraine where the voice of his All-Holiness is so important, and across the wider Orthodox world”.
Via Twitter, Pyatt mentioned that that he is “grateful as always to meet his All Holiness and to express his strong US support for his efforts on religious freedom, the Ukrainian aytocephaly and the new US Archbishop Elpidophoros.”
Grateful as always to meet His All Holiness @EcuPatriarch and to express strong U.S. support for his efforts on religious freedom, Ukrainian autocephaly, and the new U.S. Archbishop @Elpidophoros. pic.twitter.com/qvOY7ScGkb
— Geoffrey Pyatt (@USAmbPyatt) May 24, 2019
Taking into account the important role of Constantinople in the support of various schismatic groups and Orthodox-styled political fabrications in the Balkans and Ukraine, it becomes clear what kind of “religious freedom” and “issues” across the Orthodox world, which Pyatt addressed.
Having previously served as Ambassador to Ukraine, Pyatt is known for his involvement in organizing 2014 Maidan coup. He became widely known for his activities against Russia and the canonical Orthodox Church. In particular, he openly supports the creation of the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). In September 2016, Pyatt became Ambassador to Greece where he has continued such activities, meeting with prominent figures in the Greek Orthodox world, including Bartholomew several times, His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos), Abbot Ephraim of Vatopaidi Monastery on Mt. Athos, and most recently Abp. Ieronymos, together with Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Samuel Brownback.
The OCU is the schismatic group created in Ukraine in December 2018 with support from the Poroshenko government, the US and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Technically, it was formed as a result of the unification council held by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP) and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC). Two former hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) also participated in the event.
The Russian Orthodox Church (the Moscow Patriarchate) and its Ukrainian branch, the UOC-PM does not recognize the OCU de-facto describing it as a schismatic group. In own turn, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has granted the OCU with the Tomos of autocephaly.
Most of the Ukrainian Christians stay with the UOC-MP.
The main goal of the OCU creation, at least in the eyes of its leaders, was to seize all the property and churches of the UOC-MP in Ukraine with help from the Kiev government. They saw the sensitive religious move as a tool to increase personal wealth. However, this goal faced ‘unexpected’ difficulties when it appeared that leaders of the OCU are clashing each against others over the control of this new entity. The Poroshenko government saw the creation of the OCU as a logical tool in its anti-Russian course in the religious sphere. The US used this as one of the steps to divide the Ukrainian population from Russia further. Despite years of propaganda and total censorship, a significant part of the Ukrainians still sees the actions of the Poroshenko government against resistance forces (DPR and LPR) in eastern Ukraine as a criminal act.
In Montenegro, the US and its friends from Constantinople de-facto back the Montenegrin Orthodox Church (MOC), which, with help from the pro-Western government, is fighting the Serbian Orthodox Church, which is a dominating Orthodox force in the country. Similar to the Ukrainian case, the MOC seeks to seize all Orthodox Christian property in Montenegro that is in the possession of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
The MOC is planning to convince the government to adopt a law that would allow to seize the property of the Serbian Orthodox Church and transfer it to the MOC under a pretext that the MOC is its real ‘historical legal owner’.
Some negative symptoms can also been observed in Bulgaria, where the Bulgarian Alternative Orthodox Church (BAOC), backed up by the very same powers are working to undermine positions of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. The interesting fact is that the BAOC has ties with the MOC and the aforementioned Ukrainian schismatic. Therefore, the emerging network designed to undermine the canonical Orthodox Church in the Balkans is not even hiding.
At the same time, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church traditionally keeps ties with the Russian Orthodox Church (the Moscow Patriarchate) and the Serbian Orthodox Church. The strengthening schismatic groups constantly target both of them.
According to reports, the canonic Orthodox Church is also facing some difficulties in North Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo.
Some experts say that the aforementioned emerging trends across the Balkans indicate an attempt to repeat the Ukraine-like scenario in the religious sphere of Balkan states and create a kind of the “Orthodox crescent of instability”. The Global Deep State would use this crescent in an attempt to defeat resistance to its influence and expand control over the Balkans and eastern Europe.
The Greeks should grow some cojones and kick out Pyatt. Patriarch Bartholomew is a heretic, tool of the U.S.A. and should be anathematized. He is one of the worst Ecumenical Patriarchs ever. Ανάξιος! Ανάξιος! Ανάξιος!
Πες τα ρε πατριώτη! Αλλά εδώ δεν μπορούμε να ξεφορτωθούμε τα καθάρματα που μας κυβερνούν..(από Κύπρο?-όχι ότι έχει σημασία, πάλι πατριώτες είμαστε!)
I cant see You and Turks try to heal anything.
Βεβαιως να τους ξεφορτωθουμε, αλλα μεγαλυτερη σημασια εχει ποιους φερνουμε! Οσο για τους παπαδες, να τους θαψουμε ολους διοτι η θρησκεια ( οποιαδηποτε) ειναι το οπιον των λαων.
you got that right.
Even India had relative communal harmony until the Jews got involved with Hindu chauvinists and Modi’s RSS. Jew modus operandi since biblical era has been to sow conflict amongst other religions so they can divide people and profit.
India has also resumed buying Iranian oil. Good for India as Chah Bahar port is key to India’s trade with Europe and Central Asia as it by-passes the corrupt Paki failed state that is selling the daughters to the stinking Chinaman.
Pyatt is a Russian hate agent.
Geoffrey Pyatt is a Jew who made the coup in Ukraine with Nuland. What is curious in all this is that Victoria Nuland is Jewish, US ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt is Jewish, Yatsenuk put as interim president is Jewish, Poroshenko 1/4 Jew, the current Ukrainian Prime Minister Groysman is Jewish, Zelensky is Jewish too. It is the jew new american century for world domination. They are making huge disasters, they are destroying the age-old culture and tradition of Eastern Europe to reduce it like the Middle East where jews first favored the genocide of Armenian Christians by supporting young Turks and currently supporting Isis and Al Qaeda Wahhabis who massacre Christians in Iraq and Syria. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/422950b2784df28f3e1e1a58fef500dc9f0191bd9c01e75105f843cda927254b.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/743c7be3b048b4b3086e284453f19cf0863c7739c075c9c5c74b4196eece6d70.jpg
The Orthodox Church in occupied Palestine has offered staunch resistance to Zionists since the illegal occupation in 1948 and destruction of Orthodox churches, and now they are intent on dividing the Orthodox, the same way the current Sunni version of Islam is MADE IN USA by devious Jews.
It really beggars belief that American warmongers and their Jew masters are now actively involved in fanning divisive fissures in the Orthodox church, the same way they have done with the Sunni Arabs and spreading the Wahhabi/Salafist headchopper version and fanning terrorism and wars.
I smell Jews assholes behind this too.
the good old trick of using “religion” to advance imperialism purposes
Like the lardass Americunt arseholes are using the dumbass Sunnis of Saudi and Persian Gulf petro pimpdoms to prop up their Jew masters.