The Political Situation

The conflict in the Ukraine has dragged on for years, perhaps because Russia had to be ready for a war to defend itself against Western Europe. Now the West has been divided into two, with the USA abandoning Western Europe and even withdrawing from NATO after its defeat by Iran, Russia is ready. It can defend itself in a war against Western Europe. The latter’s elite wants to launch that war as soon as possible. However, the people of Western Europe have no interest whatsoever in such an attack on Russia – the words of its elite are probably just empty bluster. In any case, the hated pro-Zelensky elite of Western Europe is collapsing, with the most aggressive, Starmer, gone first.

The most disliked man in the UK, a tedious and depressing bureaucrat, the dullest of all sociopathic, Establishment-appointed functionaries, with a fake wife and Ukrainian ‘male models’, has gone. The peoples of Britain cheer with happiness, even if he is replaced by his clone, Burnham. The highly unpopular Merz and Macron may be next to fall, together with all manner of sexual perverts and cocaine addicts who belong to the Globalist elite. After this, new leaders may begin siding with their peoples. Spain has already started in its campaign against Zionist genocide. Italy and Ireland are beginning, with Poland objecting to the genocide of the Kiev Fascists against the Poles in 1943.

After four lost years of diplomatic moderation and caution, Russia will reluctantly be obliged to take over all of the Ukraine, if it wants to demilitarise and denazify it. Then it will be in a position to negotiate with its neighbours: ‘Leave NATO and we will return the lands in the Ukraine which Stalin stole from you, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Poland’. Years late, a New Ukraine can at last be dragged out of its corruption, poverty and the oppression of its Zionist bandit-oligarchs and cocaine addicts, to Russian standards of living. This will leave the Orthodox Church problem to be solved at last, but only as part of the resolution of the general Church architecture problem in Western Europe.

The Church Situation

In 1988 we proposed that there should be a new Autocephalous Local Western European Orthodox Church, in six and then perhaps eight Archdioceses. The latter could eventually become Autocephalous Local Churches in their own right. These six or eight Local Archdioceses were: Italia = Italy, San Marino, Italian-speaking Switzerland and Malta; Iberia = Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar; Iona = The British Isles and Ireland; Gallia = France, Monaco and French-speaking Belgium and Switzerland; Scandinavia = Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark; Germania = Germany, Netherlands, Flanders, Luxembourg, German-speaking Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Austria.

The latter three countries may now have enough Orthodox to be separated from an Archdiocese of Germania. And the two and a half countries of Benelux might one day be big enough to separate too. Eight new Local Churches? Geographically, nothing has changed since 1988, but much has changed in other respects. The Constantinople Church is now much smaller, as it dies out, though a few living parts have moved out of the Greek ghetto. The three parts of the Russian Church finally reached unity, until the now fully Americanised CIA ROCOR fell into schism from the Archdiocese of Western Europe. Now the latter is proposing to consecrate its Moldovan bishops, defying Moscow like Riga.

Above all, despite the presence of Ukrainians, Serbs, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Antiochians and Georgians, Orthodox Western Europe is dominated by the Romanian Church. Divided into two Autonomous Metropolias, there are now over four million Romanians and Moldovans (some of the latter also form the bulk of the Moscow presence, with two bishops) in Western Europe. With ten bishops, the Romanians and Moldovans have nearly 1300 parishes and thirty monasteries. This is about 65% of all Orthodox. Moreover, the Romanian Church is very close to the canonical Ukrainian presence. The two peoples get on very well and there are bilingual parishes, as in Romania and the Ukraine.

The Future?

The Patriarchate of Romania could yet move to establish an Autocephalous Western European Orthodox Church, given its majority situation, Latin language and its incarnation into several parts of Western Europe. It full well knows that, in any case, the Greeks and the Russians would not initially take part in any new Autocephalous Western European Church. They boycott localisation, as they both suffer from their anti-Incarnational, anti-Catholicity imperial ideologies, namely, ‘Hellenism’ and ‘the Russian World’. The hope would be that the below eight national Diaspora groups would band together, initially leaving Greeks and Russians out in the cold, as they so clearly desire.

Romanians, Moldovans, Serbs, Ukrainians, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Antiochians and Georgians together? The parishes of the Paris Archdiocese of Western Europe would join such a new Western European Local Church quickly, leaving Moscow Russian nationalists, ROCOR American Protestant nationalists and Greek Phanariot nationalists to die out in self-imposed isolation. Their second and third generations would vote with their feet, leaving the empty buildings and the old peoples’ homes behind them. What of the other European countries, which are not included above and are not part of a Local Church (Slovenia, Croatia, Czechia, Slovakia and Poland)?

It seems to me that Finland and the three Baltic States should have their own single Baltic Church, with autocephaly granted by Moscow. All pro-Romanian parts of Moldova should return to the Romanian Church. And similarly, Hungary should have its own Church, if the 600 parishes of Carpatho-Russia return to Hungary and not to Slovakia. If to Slovakia, then Hungary should form its own Archdiocese, linked with the Romanian Church, which already has a bishop and diocese there. In a Russia in BRICS, where sovereignty is the norm, the Moscow Church would have to reform itself, at last escaping its Imperial and Soviet straitjacket, and grant autocephaly to the New Ukraine and Belarus.