10/24/2020
Metropolitan Isaiah (Kykkotis) of Tamassos
The secular world seeks to devour us like "a roaring lion" and rob us of our sanctity. This is the greatest danger, much greater than this accursed separation.
My only objection and disagreement with this policy of the West is that we have mixed the history and theology of the Orthodox Church with the foreign policy of states, resulting in a serious threat to the future of Orthodox unity.
His Eminence Metropolitan Isaiah of Tamassos and Orinis gave an interview to the Romfea Church news agency, which we have translated into English in three parts, frankly answering all the questions about his position regarding the actions of Constantinople, the West, and Moscow, and also commenting on the behavior of the Archbishop of Cyprus.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol, Metropolitan Nikiforos of Kykkos and Tellyria, Metropolitan Isaiah of Tamassos, Bishop Nicholas of Amathountos
In their appeal, they reaffirm the stance that Patriarch Bartholomew and the other primates who have accepted the schismatics have acted arbitrarily and anti-canonically in Ukraine and only threaten greater disunity and schism in the Church.