President Biden receives Patriarch of Alexandria at White House

Washington, D.C., October 12, 2022

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Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria met with President Joe Biden at the White House yesterday, accompanied by Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

The Patriarch told the President that he “came to the United States with the love of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew,” and presented him with the Grand Cross of the Apostle Mark—the highest honor of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, reports the Orthodoxia News Agency.

He also spoke of the U.S. President as a man of faith.

The Alexandrian primate is visiting America for the first time. On Saturday, he was granted the Athenagoras Human Rights Award by the Archons of the Patriarchate of Constantinople for standing with Patriarch Bartholomew against the Russian Church on the matter of the Ukrainian schismatics.

His meeting with the President lasted about half an hour, during which Biden showed strong interest in the work of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, as well as the current battle with the Moscow Patriarchate, which created an African Exarchate in December and has been actively receiving clergy and parishes throughout Africa.

They also discussed the war in Ukraine, Greek-American relations, and religious freedom.

Before the meeting with Pres. Biden, Pat. Theodoros also met with other White House officials, and afterwards he visited the State Department.

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10/12/2022

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Archbishop Elpidophoros and the Greek Archdiocese stand together with the U.S. State Department against the Russian Orthodox Church, which he and the State Department consider but a tool of the Russian state. Patriarch Theodoros accuses Russian Church of “enslaving” Ukrainian Church Patriarch Theodoros accuses Russian Church of “enslaving” Ukrainian Church Patriarch Theodoros accuses Russian Church of “enslaving” Ukrainian Church Patriarch Theodoros accuses Russian Church of “enslaving” Ukrainian Church
This position represents a stark departure from that which he previously held for many decades.
Comments
Dimitrije10/13/2022 8:49 pm
To call the plastic papist a man of faith is grave heresy.
Alex10/13/2022 4:32 am
Theodoros, in the not too distant future, Russia will have more parishes in North Africa than the dismal Patriarchate of Alexandria. It will happen.
Peter10/12/2022 11:49 pm
Theodoros, another performer in the circus of the absurd! God help us.
Pikgrim10/12/2022 8:18 pm
Absurd insanity. Heretic
Theodoros10/12/2022 4:07 pm
The blind leading the blind. Archbishop Elpidophoros who is totally unfit for the priesthood leading the compromised Patriarch of Alexandria to visit a President who opposes Christian morality and threatens religious freedom. As a Greek I am disgusted by all three of these individuals. Patriarch Theodore is a hypocrite who originally supported the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and switched his position. Now he bashed Russia while currying favor with a President who espouses pagan values (infanticide, transgenderism). The whole visit is a disgusting sham. These people are not only not Orthodox, they are not Greeks despite their blatant displays of ethnophyletism for self serving purposes. Greece faces a serious threat from Turkey but this corrupt Archbishop and this hypocritical Patriarch are interested only in their own power which is why they are anti Russian. Many Greeks like myself love Russia and the Russian Church and oppose Bartholomew, Elpidophoros, and Theodore.
Mikhail10/12/2022 3:46 pm
A man of faith? The Grand Cross of Saint Mark? To a man who is the most pro-abortion president in history? Now there is no doubt that this Patriarch is compromised and deluded.
Alexander Leitner10/12/2022 3:33 pm
Schismatic apostate!
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