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Pope Francis Shouted Heresy During Visit to Athens, Police Arrested Perpetrators

Pope Francis delivers a sermon during a mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, Sunday (11/14/2021). (Source: Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press)

ATHENA, KOMPAS.TVThe world’s Catholic leader, Pope Francis, is shouted astray as he enters the Orthodox Archdiocese in Athens, Greece, Saturday (4/12/2021).

The perpetrator was identified as an elderly Orthodox priest, who was later arrested by the police.

The video at the scene shows a man wearing a black robe, with a black hat and has a long white beard shouting the words outside the diocese building.

The police immediately moved quickly by arresting him and taking him away.

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Quoted from South China Morning Post, eyewitnesses said the man screamed loud enough that the whales could be heard in the crowd.

The man had fallen during his arrest, and was later picked up by police and taken away.

Pope Francis arrived in Greece on the same day, for a three-day visit.

The visit was an attempt to bring the eastern and western churches closer together.

Christianity split into the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1054, in what is known as the Great Schism.

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