Fr. George Metallinos: Patriarch Bartholomew hastened to fulfill wish of great world power

Athens, December 25, 2019

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Fr. George Metallinos reposed in the Lord on Thursday, November 19, at the age of 79. His funeral was served the next day at the Church of St. Thomas in Ampelokipi, Athens, and he was buried at Playtera Monastery on the island of Corfu on Sunday, December 22.

Fr. George was among the most influential and authoritative priests, theologians, and professors of the Greek Orthodox Church in the 20th-21st centuries.

On December 22, the Greek outlet Oukraniko published a video of Fr. George from a Patristics conference he attended on May 18, 2019 in which he addresses Patriarch Bartholomew’s granting of a tomos of autocephaly to the Ukrainian schismatics, characterizing it as a result of unfortunate geopolitics.

“The Ecumenical Patriarchate should not have rushed to the autocephaly of the Church of Ukraine, which according to the calendar of the Church of Greece belongs to the Church of Russia—we Greeks confess this,” Fr. George said, adding that we are now in troubled times and have returned to a cold war.

“The two world powers are in this conflict. In such a situation, the Ecumenical Patriarchate was, I believe, victimized, rushing to fulfill the wish of one party, a great power, and to come into conflict with the other great power,” he continued.

“As was the case with the pseudo-council on Crete, the Orthodox Church today is in dire straits,” Fr. George reflected, noting that the council was rejected by the majority of Orthodox.

We are now in a time of great conflict, with things changing from one moment to another, Fr. George said, pointing to the Ukrainian presidential election in March that brought in a new president with a new attitude towards Church-state relations.

“Thus, the Ecumenical Patriarchate should not have done this at this time,” Fr. George concludes.

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12/25/2019

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Comments
Thanos Loukas1/24/2020 11:54 pm
I could not have said it any better then that. Amen. I hope this Geo-political game is finished soon.
Alexios12/26/2019 7:49 pm
Amen brother! Amen!
JEinCA12/25/2019 2:31 pm
As an Orthodox Christian (a convert) and an American I am furious over my government's involvement in this new schism. However I must put my fury aside and look at things from a historical and yes Biblical perspective. The American officials who thought up this sceme to divide God's Church (The One True Church) are in the role of Pontius Pilate. Their only truth and reality is winning the game of Geopolitical chess where as the EP and the Orthodox Hierarchs who went along with this scheme are akin to Judas selling their souls (and the truth of Orthodoxy which they knoe to be true) for worldly gain (30 pieces of silver). Who holds the greater sin?
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