Archons to give Patriarch of Alexandria human rights award for helping Constantinople oppose the Russian Church

New York, July 25, 2022

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Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Athenagoras Human Rights Award of the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Order of St. Andrew of Apostle, known as the Archons.

Pat. Theodoros, whom the Archons describe as a “tireless defender of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and a determined advocate for religious freedom,” will receive the award on Saturday, October 8, at the Order’s annual banquet at the Hilton Hotel in New York, the Order reports.

As in past years, the award focuses on how the awardee has served the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Archon National Commander Anthony J. Limberakis explains that Pat. Theodoros was chosen because he supports Constantinople’s self-understanding as the first without equals and stands against the Moscow Patriarchate:

Patriarch Theodore has stood courageously against the uncanonical ecclesiastical imperialism of the Moscow Patriarchate. In an encyclical issued on May 9, 2022, Patriarch Theodore denounced the “anti-canonical, unfraternal, ahistorical and vengeful attempt of the Russian Church in Africa to invade the canonical jurisdiction of the ancient Patriarchate of Alexandria, following the recognition by His Beatitude the Primate, Pope and Patriarch His Beatitude Theodore II of the Autocephaly canonically granted to the local Church of Ukraine by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, by means of financial enticement of the native priests.”

Pat. Theodoros thus joins the likes of “Metropolitan” Epiphany Dumenko, the head of the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” that survives by persecuting and violently seizing churches from the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, who received the award in 2019, and the pro-abortion and since disgraced former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, who received the award in 2015.

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7/25/2022

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Kirill Alexandrov Who Do the Archons of the Patriarchate of Constantinople Serve? Who Do the Archons of the Patriarchate of Constantinople Serve?
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What role do influential Greek clans play in strengthening the power of the Phanar and what do they have to do with Ukraine? Comments on the Archons’ Town Hall Meeting on Ukrainian Autocephaly Comments on the Archons’ Town Hall Meeting on Ukrainian Autocephaly
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The Archons are Patriarch Bartholomew’s PR arm and fundraisers and few expected anything new from this meeting—the right of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to intervene in any Church situation anywhere, any time would be asserted again with little real engagement of the serious issues involved in every aspect of the current Church crisis in Ukraine and Constantinople’s role in it.
Comments
Michael Steele6/17/2023 9:19 am
Always good for a laugh. Cain and Able. Thou shall not covet. Though shall not steal. Turn the other cheek, not look the other way as in the Parable of the Good Sam it an. Render unto Ceased, International Law? If Orthodox leaders don't follow the Gospel and Christ's example are they heretics? How can they be removed.
Katherine7/27/2022 7:51 am
Who else wants to send antimensions our way? Us Africans have no Patriarch, but we are just hosting a chaplain for the Hellenes who live in the continent. What a missed opportunity for him!
Dionysius Redington7/26/2022 4:06 am
Although the Alexandrian and Constantinople patriarchates are indeed schismatic or heretical, and although the Archons have become agents of American imperial policy, it is equally true that the blatantly uncanonical African Exarchate that Pat. Theodore is being honoured for opposing seems to exist primarily because of Russian imperial policy. Sergey Lavrov is in Africa right now: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/25/russias-lavrov-in-congo-as-moscow-courts-africa A new 'scramble for Africa' is in progress, and Moscow is using Orthodoxy in the same way that Britain once used Scottish Presbyterianism and France once used Catholicism. --Dionysius Redington
Alexander Leitner7/25/2022 9:48 pm
Schismatic!
Alex7/25/2022 6:23 pm
Wow...they'll do anything to divert attention away from Constantinople's transgressions...establishing churches made up of schismatics, deposed clergymen, and self-ordained laymen, pilfering funds, embracing sodomites, etc., the list can go on! Sad, so very sad.
Makarios7/25/2022 5:46 pm
'uncanonical ecclesiastical imperialism' Psychological projection appears to be a communicable disease, endemic to the Unites States of late, but rapidly surging into pandemic phase.
Mikhail7/25/2022 4:31 pm
Another classic choice by the heretical Archons. Russia, Russia, Russia!
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