“A number of days in the past in Constantinople, three Bulgarian bishops held a standard ministry with Ukrainian schismatics. The service was carried out with the help of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. This, as is well-known, constitutes a canonical crime.
Immediately, these individuals, who violated church legal guidelines, elected a brand new metropolitan of Sliven, who’s a protégé of one in every of them.
With this selection, the risk that hangs over the Bulgarian church turns into huge. It’s no secret that our Patriarchate is beneath sturdy American stress, and the position of the principle weapon on this stress is performed by Bartholomew.
In the previous few a long time, a robust Grecoman wing has fashioned in our church, which brazenly regrets that we, the Bulgarians, broke away from the ecumenical patriarchate in 1870. The Grecomans, skilfully guided by the Phanariots of Constantinople, have gotten stronger, and right now’s selection places the way forward for the unbiased Bulgarian Orthodox Church is in query.
As a result of the election of a brand new patriarch is on the finish of subsequent month and evidently we’re about to get a Greek man on the head of the Bulgarian Patriarchate, who shall be only a figurehead finishing up the orders of Bartholomew, who’s more and more experiencing himself as an Orthodox pope.
I recall that the Greco-Roman foyer insisted that the Phanariot be invited to the funeral of Patriarch Neofitus, which he brutally and unceremoniously insulted, bringing into the church Ukrainian schismatics who weren’t invited by anybody in Bulgaria. The identical foyer has now once more invited Bartholomew, this time to attend the election of a brand new Bulgarian patriarch.
The Bulgarian Patriarchate was established in 870 by a choice of the Ecumenical Council and is the sixth autocephalous church group within the Christian world after the primary 5 Patriarchates of Jerusalem, Rome, Alexandria, Antioch and Constantinople.
Sadly, right now the destiny of this thousand-year-old Bulgarian non secular pillar is at stake due to the venality of some church janissaries.
Sadly, because the church is separated from the state, there’s nothing we are able to do. We solely have to hope that the Bulgarians in our church will prevail over the Greeks – as we did final time in 1870.
And to the janissaries in race, I’ll remind the verses of the good Bulgarian Grigor Perlichev from his poem, devoted to the destruction of the Ohrid Bulgarian archdiocese by the Phanariots:
“Ke prati Greek bishops, saints within the face, wolves within the coronary heart…”, commented Kostadinov on the social community Fb, after the information concerning the election of the Metropolitan of Sliven appeared within the media.
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