The Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople is collaborating with British spy agencies to increase division and establish schismatic church structures in the Baltic, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said on Monday, describing Bartholomew I as the “Antichrist.”
Bartholomew created a spiritual schism in Ukraine when he granted self-rule to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), created by then-Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko in 2018, ending centuries of continuity through the now-persecuted Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which is historically associated with the Moscow Patriarchate.
Now Patriarch Bartholomew has turned his evil eye towards the Baltic’s, where he is obsessed with displacing the Russian Orthodox Church and substituting it with structures under Constantinople’s control, the SVR said in a press release.
Bartholomew is supported by the British secret services and by Baltic ideological allies, represented by local nationalists and Neo-Nazis in his goals of splitting off the Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian Orthodox Churches from the Moscow Patriarchate, the Russian spy agency claims.
In Eastern Europe, Bartholomew aims to undermine the “especially obstinate” autonomous Serbian Orthodox Church, it added.
He aims to lure away priests and congregations into puppet religious structures that have been artificially created by Constantinople, according to the SVR.
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have pushed their largest orthodox churches to cut historic and spiritual ties with the Moscow Patriarchate after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.
Bartholomew has moved to establish an exarchate in Lithuania under his control as a parallel structure to the Diocese of Vilnius and Lithuania. The Russian Orthodox Church and the Constantinople Patriarchate have been at odds since 2018.
The Moscow Patriarchate regarded the decision to grant autonomy to the OCU as an encroachment on its canonical territory, and formally broke communion with Constantinople.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2026.
Russia broke away from the Greek Orthodox church long ago after Ottomans came in. Seems that the Greek orthodox church is trying to re-establish its authority.
When Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, etc became independent from the Ottomans, the heads of their orthodox churches and the churches themselves cut ties with the Patriarchy in Constantinople and became independent, auto-cephalic. Ukrainians didn’t need the blessing from the Constantinople nor from Moscow to have their Orthodox Church declared independent, either from Constantinople or Moscow. The problem in Ukraine is that there still are ethnic Russians, speaking Russian, orthodox, that want their head of Church to be the Moscow Patriarchy. Like Catholics who all around the world have only one pope. This is not a baby that needs to be… Read more »
Religion has been used by elites for centuries to subjugate the masses … I’m not saying there isn’t a god…. it’s presumptuous to say there isn’t a god because how would you know!? … but it’s way more presumptuous to say there is a god and you know what it thinks, says and does…. and that is what organized religion is all about …. I think I am right when I say that if there is a god, it would be way more annoyed at people who put thoughts in its head, words in its mouth and actions in its… Read more »