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Resisting the Servants of Antichrist: Working for the Freedom and Unity of Old and New Orthodox Churches

You will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free

John: 8,32

Introduction: Patriotism Defeats Globalism

The enemy of local Patriotism has always been Globalist Imperialism. That means the hegemonic rule and tyrannical domination of the world by one monopolistic power. This is known as Zionism. And if we are speaking about Imperialism since 1945, we are speaking about Americanisation, also known as Globalisation, meaning Zionisation. This is the One World Dictatorship of Antichrist, which his servants have been working towards for ten centuries and was first attempted by the universalist claims of the Popes of Rome.

Today, however, we are entering a new period, that of a world without a monopoly of power, a world with at least nine different centres of power and influence, China, Russia, India, the USA, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Iran, South Africa. As a result, we are speaking about the Re-Sovereignisation of the lands of the world after the defeat of Globalism by Patriotism, described below.

Political ReSovereignisation

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave North Asia (Eurasia, known as Russia), abandoning its outmatched, outclassed and bankrupt Neo-Nazi proxy, the Kiev regime, which absurdly attempted to destroy Russia by sacrificing the lives of millions of its own citizens to the Zionist US elite.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave North-West Asia (the Western European Peninsula), abandoning to Eurasia the hated Globalist, illegal puppet elites the US put into power in the Neo-Nazi controlled NATO/EU countries.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave West Asia (‘the Middle East’), abandoning the Zionist settler state and its corrupt and tyrannical Gulf puppets to the Great Power of West Asia, which is, and always has been, Iran.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave East Asia (China), abandoning its local puppet elites in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and withdrawing its missiles and troops from there.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave South Asia (the Indian subcontinent), which depends on Iranian and Russian energy to survive.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave South-East Asia (Australia and all Oceania), abandoning its absurdly expensive and quite unnecessary local NATO, called AUKUS.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave Africa, as its lands at last gain the courage to throw off colonial control.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave Latin America, having lost all support for the conquest of Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland and Canada.

Church ReSovereignisation

‘Those who put the Patriarch into power in Constantinople will remove him’.

Eldress Galaktia of Crete (+ 2021)

In Church terms, this means that the USA will also be forced to abandon its puppet in Constantinople. This it has controlled ever since, in one its first criminal acts, the CIA kidnapped the righteous confessor Patriarch Maximos V in 1948 and took him into exile in Switzerland in the presidential plane of the atomic mass murderer Truman. As a result, the CIA tried to exercise its anti-canonical control over all the Local Orthodox Churches through the deliberate Zionist misinterpretation of the Church canons, notably Canon 28 of the Council of Chalcedon, thus flattering anti-Christian Hellenist racism.

Freedom at long last for the Patriarchate of Constantinople would mean that the Russian Church would not have to try and be Zionist either. For, equally absurdly, Zionist, Soviet Moscow has in rivalry also tried to lay claim to universal domination of all the Local Orthodox Churches in the same way as Zionist Constantinople. Now they both harbour the same imperialist, that is, anti-Christian, anti-Catholic and anti-local, ambitions. The restoration of Russian Church governance through its Re-Sovereignisation would be possible. But for that it must overcome its stiflingly bureaucratic Soviet-style Papalised centralisation.

However, the corruption of the Russian Church, its Papalisation, Statisation, nationalisation, clericalisation, militarisation, bureaucratisation and ritualisation, goes back before 1917. For even in 1917 the vast majority of its bishops betrayed the Orthodox Tsar. But the heroic confessor and martyr Patriarch Tikhon did not. Before that, it was for 200 years enslaved as a Department of State on the Protestant model by a Tsar who was Protestant in all but name. Any number of episcopal quenchers of the Spirit, ‘good administrators’ (the words of Metr Antony of Kiev (1863-1936)), now called ‘effective managers’, were found then, as now.

The governance of the Russian Church is Papalised (they adore the Pope of Rome and go there as often as possible), controlled by a Sovietised senior clerical caste, for now schismatically out of communion with other Local Churches, is top heavy, irrelevant to the people and above all has been unfaithful to the New Martyrs and Confessors. The New Martyr Tsar Nicholas knew this 120 years ago and prayed for the spiritual renewal of the clergy. The best of the Russian emigration like St John of Shanghai knew it too. But freedom and restoration have still not come. Soviet-style nationalism is not patriotism, for it makes Russia hated.

Conclusion: The Suicide of Psychopaths Brings Life to Others

A few days ago, the psychopathic and foul-mouthed Trump, the master of vulgarity and bad taste, resembling the mafia boss of a gangster Empire more than a President of a democratic republic, threatened that a ‘whole civilization will die tonight’. In his malignant narcissist folly mixed with dementia, the main representative of the anti-family Epstein class threatened to kill 5,000 years of Iranian Civilisation. This was just like another American narcissistic bully, a spoilt brat and virulent supporter of Trump, only a few of whose effeminate and sycophantic clergy had the guts to resist. He threatened to kill 50 years of English Orthodox Civilisation, its foundations in the distant past and threatened to destroy its families today.

In fact, both shot themselves in both feet, Trump, by losing in the Ukraine and then in Iran, the bishop by creating a schism against Orthodoxy and then against English identity. Trump is isolated from the rest of the world, he has no allies and has blasphemed against Christ, so he will finish badly. The bishop has isolated himself from fifteen Local Churches and will be isolated within his own, once it comes out of its schism against the Greek Orthodox world. Once his own Local Church is no longer distracted by politics, he too will find himself totally isolated. Thus, we successfully resist the servants of Antichrist, when they commit spiritual suicide.

 

 

 

I Had a Dream: Twelve Days that Would Shake the Orthodox World

Moscow, Wednesday 1st, The Ascension Thursday 2nd, and Friday 3rd June

After the Liturgy for the Leavetaking of Pascha and the resignation of the previous Patriarch, Metropolitan Pavel was elected Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox (ROC). The first act of the Patriarch and his Synod was to rename the Soviet-era ‘Moscow Patriarchate’ ‘the Patriarchate of New Jerusalem and All Russia’ and to move his administration to the New Jerusalem Monastery outside Moscow for deSovietisation. Then the Synod refrocked all who had been defrocked for political reasons by the old regime and cleansed the Church by defrocking ‘the princes of the Church’, placed there by the old regime. These were all the corrupt careerists, thieves and sadists, who had humiliated and persecuted faithful priests and people, the sexually disturbed narcissists, intellectuals, homosexuals, pedophiles and psychopaths who hated married priests, women and children.

After the Ascension Feast Liturgy, Patriarch Pavel set up four new Autocephalous Local Churches. These new Churches were: the Kievska Rus Church (for the new Ukraine), the Belarussian Church, the Baltic Church (for Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania) and the Central Asian Church (for the five stans of Central Asia). Also the OCA (Orthodox Church in America), founded by Moscow, was renamed the NAOC (Northern American Orthodox Church). The ROC gave up its Northern American parishes to the NAOC, those in Oceania to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, those in South America and those in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean to the Patriarchate of Antioch, and all those in Western Europe and Hungary to the Patriarchate of Romania. They also told the rogue, schismatic ROCOR group that it had one year to follow or be excommunicated.

Finally, the Patriarch also transformed the Church’s Department of External Relations into the Department of Inter-Orthodox Relations. On Friday afternoon the new Patriarch left Moscow and proceeded with his delegation to Istanbul for reconciliation and the renewal of concelebration with the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the other Greek-speaking Churches.

Istanbul, Saturday 4th, Sunday 5th and Monday 6th June

After the resignation of the previous Patriarch, Bishop Petros was elected Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The first act of the Patriarch and his Synod was to cleanse the Church by defrocking ‘the princes of the Church’, placed there by the old regime. These were all the corrupt careerists, freemasons, thieves and sadists, who had humiliated and persecuted faithful priests and people, the sexually disturbed narcissists, intellectuals, homosexuals, pedophiles and psychopaths who hated married priests, women and children. Then Patriarch Petros and his Synod abandoned the fake ‘Church’ in the Ukraine, which had been known as the OCU, and told them to join the canonical Church. It then decided to recognise and concelebrate with the Patriarchate of New Jerusalem and all 20 Autocephalous Churches, including the four new ones.

Finally, all agreed to establish a new Autocephalous Church for Oceania, also giving its parishes in Northern America to the NAOC, giving up parishes in South America, and those in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, to the Patriarchate of Antioch, and those in Western Europe and in Hungary to the Patriarchate of Romania, where new Local Churches would be established.

Alexandria, Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th June

After the resignation of the previous Patriarch, Bishop Moses was elected Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Alexandria. Born in Uganda, he is the first black Patriarch of Africa. The first act of the Patriarch and his Synod was to cleanse the Church by refrocking those who had been defrocked for political reasons and defrocking ‘the princes of the Church’, placed there by the old regime. These were all the corrupt careerists, freemasons, thieves and sadists, who had humiliated and persecuted faithful priests and people, the sexually disturbed narcissists, intellectuals, homosexuals, pedophiles and psychopaths who hated married priests, women and children. He replaced all these with black African bishops. Then Patriarch Moses decided to move his administration to Nairobi, the Church keeping its ancient title as the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa.

A number of Greek, Cypriot and Russian bishops were appointed to continue to serve in the Patriarchate as consultants. However, the Church is now dominated by African bishops, selected from the local clergy, who are spread out all over the African Continent. A plan has been drawn up to greatly expand their numbers, which is vital to the Africa-wide spread of the Church.

Cisinau, Thursday 9th and Friday 10th June

The Moldovan President greeted Patriarch Pavel of Moscow, Patriarch Daniel of Bucharest, their delegations, and both Metropolitans of the two still separate parts of the Moldovan Church. As nationwide democratic referenda had already been organised on self-determination, the results were announced. Apart from Transnistria in the far east, Gagauzia in the far south and a small area in the far north, which all transferred to Russia, over 80% of Moldovans had voted to join the Republic of Romania, their new region to be called the Autonomous Republic of Bessarabia. Following this decision, Orthodox in Bessarabia joined the Autonomous Bessarabian Metropolia under the Church of Romania. Patriarch Daniel accepted this and agreed to lead the formation of a Western European Orthodox Church and also a Local Church of Carpatho-Rus and Hungary.

In return, Patriarch Daniel ceded Romanian Orthodox parishes in Northern America to the NAOC, the few parishes in Latin America, and the few in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean to the two new Churches to be organised there by the Patriarchate of Antioch, and those in Oceania to the new Church to be organised there by the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Bucharest, Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th June, the Great Council and Pentecost

At the new Cathedral of National Salvation in Bucharest, the largest Orthodox Cathedral in the world, all the leaders of the Local Churches held the Great Council of the whole Orthodox Church. There Patriarch Petros announced that his Patriarchal administrative centre would move to Thessaloniki, as the Church of Greece, centred in Athens, was merging with the Patriarchate after the uncanonical British-enforced separation of Greece some 200 years before. Thus, the episcopate of the old Church of Greece joined the renewed and cleansed Patriarchate of Constantinople and All Greece. The Church of Cyprus was represented by its new head, after the resignation in Nicosia of the old Archbishop of Cyprus. The Patriarch of Jerusalem announced a renewed episcopate, dominated by several Palestinian bishops and a Russian and a Romanian bishop.

In this way the Diptychs of the Church were renewed, listing 24 Local Churches in all, nine new. Thus, after the Great Council, on that great day of the Feast, the Feast of Pentecost, Sunday 12th June, all 24 Patriarchs, Metropolitans and Archbishops of the 24 Local Churches, old and new, concelebrated in the Cathedral for the first time: of Constantinople, New Rome and All Greece, of Alexandria and All Africa, of Antioch and All the East, of Jerusalem and All Palestine, of Georgia, of New Jerusalem and All Russia, of Serbia, of Romania and All Bessarabia, of Bulgaria, of Cyprus, of Albania, of Poland, of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, of Northern America, of Macedonia, of Kievska Rus, of Belarus, of the Baltics, of Central Asia, of Western Europe, of Carpatho-Rus and All Hungary, of South America, of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and of Oceania.

 

The Madness of King Donald and the World Responsibility of Orthodoxy

The War for the Liberation of West Asia and the Ending of Western Domination

It seems that every 250 years, the people of the USA need to gain the courage to choose a Constitutional People’s Republic against an Oligarchic Autocratic Empire, led by some narcissistic, megalomaniac Napoleon. Having lost its Empire in North Asia (Russia), despite arming to the teeth its proxy in the Ukraine, East Asia (China), despite its armed and occupied proxies in Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan, South Asia (India), despite inferiority complexed traitors inside India, and Central Asia, despite CIA bribes of corrupt locals, the US elite is still desperately trying to hold on to its last foothold, West Asia (Iran), despite its overarmed and subsidised Israeli proxy.

The only bases that the USA has ever held in Asia have been on its fringes, on islands, coastal strips and peninsulas: Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, Israel, the UK and the North-Western Peninsula of Asia, called Western Europe. It lost everywhere else, in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Now the Western world is being pushed out of West Asia (‘the Middle East’ in its ethnocentric vocabulary). The feudal and corrupt Gulf tyrannies such as Shia Bahrein and Qatar, the puppets of the Western world, and the hated CIA puppet regime in Pakistan, which imprisoned its real leader, are set to fall and their Shia peoples are set to be liberated from persecution.

A wave of regional war has been unleashed by the USA by murdering the elderly and ill Shia leader Ali Khamenei, who wanted to die as a martyr. An erudite peacemaker who forbade nuclear weapons, he was in everything the opposite of the Western leader, Trump, who rejects international law and obeys only his Epstein conscience, supported by his vassals in the Western world. Having murdered 165 Iranian girls in a primary school, Trump has unleashed a war without end. He spreads his anti-BRICS tentacles from the Arctic to the Ukraine and now to Iran, in order to cut off the north-south trade corridor from Russia to Iran and the new east-west silk road of China.

The Iranians may have killed the sabbath-breaking Netanyahu (real name Mileikowsky), who was/is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocidal war crimes. They have also attacked and damaged Trump’s real estate interests in the Gulf, as well as downing at least three US planes, attacking US ships and attacking Gulf hotels occupied by US troops. This long war, and it will be long, could end the Pan-Western settler State Israel and the end of pro-Western despots in the Gulf, in the Jordan and Syria. Here a terrorist regime has been installed by the USA. This may also be the end of the Western European trio, Merz, Starmer and Macron, who are so hated by their peoples.

Will two million Chinese troops be sent to Mesopotamia, hurrying to aid Iran via the new railway from China to West Asia? We do not know. Washington thought that this war was the solution to the chronic and exploding US debt crisis and a distraction to Epstein. It is not. It merely hastens the end of the millennial ‘Globalist’ tyranny of the West over the Rest. Now all refuse to negotiate with the backstabbers from the White House, since they even backstabbed, again, amid peace talks. The corrupt 20% of the West who form the Zionist Epstein class faces its nemesis. The Western peoples now glimpse freedom on the horizon. But at what cost will that freedom come?

For the moment, the family of the Israeli leader have fled, as has the family of the Ukrainian leader. Now that the delusional Trump, who believed in his own propaganda, is losing against Iran, ships, planes and bases destroyed or damaged, he is pleading for peace, but he has opened a Pandora’s Box. Peace will not come, as Iran wants to cleanse West Asia of the Empire’s proxies. One third of Trump’s Navy and his Air Force face obliteration, though no doubt at great cost to Iran. But the USA faces ejection back to Northern America and Western Europe at last faces the humbled reality that it is just another part of the world. The clock is turning back 250 years from 2026 to 1776.

The whole Muslim world, nearly one in four people on the planet, has been incensed by the full-scale, unprovoked Israeli-US attack on Iran and their assassination of its spiritual leader. The missiles aimed at Iran – they dare not bomb it, Western warplanes would be shot down – have sparked a firestorm. That has further discredited and bankrupted the whole Epstein ruling class of the Western world, together with its religions, Zionist Protestantism, based on the Hebrew Old Testament, and Imperialist Papism, based on Western barbarianism. Therefore, the future of the Church and authentic Christianity now depends on the Orthodox Church, which is only a tenth of the size of Islam. That is a terrifying responsibility, but there is nothing new in this.

 

Half a Century in the Orthodox Church in Western Europe (2)

Fleeing the Extremes

The first Christian Emperor was called Constantine. The last Orthodox Emperor was called Nicholas. He was overthrown in the so-called 1917 Revolution, that is, in the palace coup of the aristocratic traitors to the Tsar, orchestrated by the British ruling class. As a result, all the Orthodox Churches, which the Tsar had protected when still in power lost their protector and were called either to martyrdom or else to confessordom. Once infiltrated, the Churches had to resist either the CIA, by confessordom, or else of the KGB, by martyrdom and their earlier equivalents. (Earlier they had had different names, but they were still engaged in the same intrigues). Our balancing act has meant avoiding both these extremes. In our context this has not yet meant becoming martyrs, but it has meant becoming confessors.

Combating the extremes has on the one hand meant avoiding and combating globalism, liberalism, modernism, freemasonry and Vatican-style perversions and, on the other hand, avoiding and combating sectarianism, phariseeism, hateful censoriousness, political ultra-conservatism and Old Ritualist style obscurantism. Both extremes are marked by anti-Christian ‘bishops’, who are in fact thieves, homosexuals and pedophiles. Thus, we fought against the influence of the liberal modernists in the Orthodox Churches in the 1970s and 1980s and then against the sectarian pharisees in the Orthodox Churches in the 1990s and 2000s, until Russian Church unity was achieved in 2007. This was a victory over both extremes, a miracle. But the devil does not like miracles and those who announce that God is Love.

The devil attacked the Greek Church of Constantinople through nationalist racism, called ‘phyletism’ in Greek. However, he attacked the Russian Church, replacing faith and piety with the negativity of nationalist politics, which led to State-orchestrated ritualism, rigid militarism with its blind obedience and harsh punishments, instead of integrity. Professional choirs assured that everything was provided and the people were made passive, without responsibility. From there it was only one step to anti-clericalism. As they say in Russian, ‘mnogo popov, malo batjushek’, ‘there are many fake priests, but few real ones’. And so in the Russian Church, persecution always comes from the bishops. Thus, the Russian Church isolated itself and fell out of communion and catholicity with the 15 other Local Orthodox Churches.

The USA

Thus, our 2007 victory was to give us only temporary respite, a decade of peace. The programme of Americanisation, or more precisely of Trumpisation, of the American Synod of the Russian Church, known as ROCOR, began in 2017. It sent out its US agents to the still ‘unreformed’ (= normal and traditional) parts of ROCOR in Western Europe and Australia to transform these too into ignorant and arrogant convert crazy zones, like themselves, who yearned to create a rigid and ritualistic sect. This all coincided, and not coincidentally, with President Trump’s first term of belligerent Americanism and also with the second phase of the infiltration of ROCOR by the CIA. The latter activated its sleeping agents in the American Synod and recruited new ones, sending them out worldwide to what is an ecclesiastical NGO.

The Age of Trump also coincided with the consequences of the earlier activities of the notorious Mossad agents, Maxwell and Epstein, who worked hand in hand for the greater glory of worldwide Zionism. Epstein was before his murder the model psychopath: charming, superficially brilliant, very manipulative, narcissistic, a pathological liar, with no sense of empathy, a ruthless pervert and a cynical egomaniac. His psychopathic spirit became the standard for the Age and for the CIA agents in question. So much for the psychopathic narcissists of the USA and its Epstein regime. What of the other half of the Western world, Europe and the UK? Here we have not narcissistic psychopathy, but the creeping power grab of centralising Sovietisation, the old megalomaniac temptations of power and money.

Europe and the UK

Immediately after the fall of the SU (Soviet Union) at the end of 1991, the EU (European Union) was founded. The demons behind the former Union had simply fled westwards to an easier prey, the new Gadarene swine of Western Europe. Russia was no longer attractive, as it cast off the yoke of compulsory atheism. Thus, with the Treaty of Maastricht, signed in 1992, the EU became a geopolitical project. Instead of a trading community, it had become the political wing of militaristic NATO. The creeping centralising Sovietisation and Epsteinisation of the EU, obvious in its practices, was also clear in its vocabulary. Thus, the (European) Council is the translation of ‘Soviet’, the EU Commissioners mirror Soviet Commissars, the oligarchy mirrors the nomenklatura and the ‘narrative’ mirrors ‘the Party line’. SU = EU.

As for England, it continued on its historic cycle. In 597 it was converted to Christ from that Old Rome, which still openly condemned universal pretensions. In 1066 it was converted to barbarianism from Norman France, sponsored by the ideology of the new schismatic and ‘universal’ Rome, which stifled Christ with the Pope and England with Britain. In 1535 it was converted to anti-sacramentalism from Luther’s neo-pagan Germany. In 2004 it was converted to imperial delusions from Nazi Ukraine and its orange revolution. The cycle is repeated every 469 years. Today, the British Establishment is trying to revive its long-lost past glory, which was not glory, but shame. This imperialism is repeated all through the ex-imperialist Western European ruling class, nostalgic for its delusions of greatness.

The Collapse of Kiev Creates Regime Changes in the USA, Europe and the UK

What the ruling elites in both the EU and the UK have not understood is that all unions break up. The Soviet Union, the USSR, broke up. So did Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and now the Ukraine, so will Belgium, the EU, the UK, and quite possibly the US. The Four Nations of Britain and a reunited Ireland can work together, not in a Union or a Federation (which is a half-way house from a Union, as is the semi-Soviet Russian Federation), but in a Sovereign Confederation, the Ionan Confederation, IONA, the ‘Isles of the North Atlantic’. England must yet depose the British monarchs who have ruled it for so long, invited by the merchant-oligarchs of the City of London from Germany to become an Imperial House, but the Imperial Age is long over and so are they. A new Sovereign England must restore its own English Royal House.

As for the EU and the UK, they are entirely dependent on the black hole of the Kiev regime. They have bet everything on that loser, playing at the casino wheel of geopolitics, without knowledge and understanding, but with a fanatical and blinding, ever-expanding ideology of European unionism. But every time that Europe falls to union, and it is always a fall, whether under Napoleon, or Hitler, or the EU, it then sets about attacking Russia. ‘Europe’ always attacks European Russia, because Russia does not conform to the morally and financially bankrupt ideological narrative of the Eurocommissars. This is why they do not want peace. War is their self-justification, as only war gives them a unifying purpose. However, the Russian Federation frustrates them immensely, for it is playing the long game against the Kiev regime.

Moscow’s methodical advance by attrition, metre by metre, keeping its losses very low, is because it is awaiting the political collapse of Kiev, which will precede its military collapse. (This was why Germany, Britain and France, as Japan had tried in 1904-5, first brought about Russian political collapse in 1917, since political collapse always precedes military collapse). When political Kiev collapses, its army will have nothing left to fight for. Then, Russia will take over most of the old Soviet Ukraine at little cost, allowing Poland, Romania, Hungary and perhaps Slovakia to take back the far western fragments of Stalin’s Ukraine which used to belong to them, as they wish. And then there will be regime change, not in Moscow, but, ironically, in peace-hating Washington, London, Berlin, Paris and wherever Kiev Fascism was supported.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Orthodox Churches: 200 Million Faithful and 75,000 Priests (Revised Statistics for 2026)

The Orthodox Churches form a family of Local Churches like the Churches of the Galatians, the Ephesians, the Romans, the Thessalonians, the Colossians etc, as described in the letters written to them by the holy Apostle Paul. Each of the Local Orthodox Churches has a main administrative figure, a chief bishop known as a Patriarch, or in the case of smaller Churches, a Metropolitan or Archbishop. However, the Church as a whole has no earthly head, because the head of the Orthodox Church is our Lord Jesus Christ. His authority is expressed in the Orthodox Churches through the Holy Spirit as revealed particularly through the Holy Scriptures, Church Councils and the Saints. Below you will find details of the currently 16 Local Orthodox Churches (the number is increasing) and their approximate sizes: Bishops: 957. Priests: 75,075. Parishes: 72,494. Monasteries: 2,758. Faithful: approx. 200,000,000.

Russia: Bishops: 382. Priests: 35,648. Parishes: 38,647. Monasteries: 972. Faithful: 149,000,000

This is the largest Local Orthodox Church and accounts for 70% of Orthodox. It cares for Orthodox living on canonical Russian Orthodox territory, spread over one fifth of the planet (the former Soviet Union except for Georgia, plus China and Japan) and peopled by over 62 nationalities, with autonomous (semi-independent) Churches in several countries outside Russia. Its territories include the Russian Federation, and, for the moment, the Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Transcarpathia (the main part of Carpatho-Russia), Kazakhstan, Central Asia and the Baltic Republics. The Russian Church also includes the autonomous Japanese Orthodox Church and the Chinese Orthodox Church, as well as Exarchates in Belarus, Western Europe, South-East Asia and Africa.

Romania: Bishops: 60. Priests: 15,068. Parishes: 15,717. Monasteries: 359. Faithful: 19,000,000

Also known as the Patriarchate of Bucharest, apart from in Romania and Moldova (Bessarabia) there are also many Romanian parishes in the Diaspora. This is especially the case in Western Europe, where the Autonomous Romanian Orthodox Metropolias in Western Europe have over four million faithful, ten bishops and 1,283 churches.

Greece: Bishops: 101. Priests: 8,515. Parishes: 8,000. Monasteries: 541. Faithful: 9,381,000

Under the Archbishop of Athens, this Church cares for all Orthodox in Greece.

Serbia: Bishops: 44. Priests: 3,000. Parishes: 3,100. Monasteries: 204. Faithful: 6,500,000

The canonical territory of the Patriarchate of Belgrade covers Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and Slovenia. There are also many parishes in the Serbian Diaspora.

Bulgaria: Bishops: 15. Priests: 2,000. Parishes: 2,600. Monasteries: 120. Faithful: 4,091,000

The Patriarchate of Sofia covers Bulgaria and a number of churches in the Diaspora.

Georgia: Bishops: 47. Priests: 1,100. Parishes: 550. Monasteries: 172. Faithful: 3,097,000

The Patriarchate of Tbilisi covers Georgia and a small Georgian Diaspora.

Constantinople: Bishops: 125. Priests: 5,935. Parishes: 3,196. Monasteries: 56. Faithful: 3,050,000

This includes Greek Orthodox in Istanbul (about 1,000), those on Greek islands such as Crete and Rhodes (700,000), and above all the Greek Diaspora in the Americas, Western Europe and Australia.

Antioch: Bishops: 41. Priests: 408. Parishes: 496. Monasteries: 32. Faithful: 2,000,000

The canonical territory of the Arab Patriarch, who lives in Damascus, includes Syria, the Lebanon and Iraq.

Macedonia: Bishops: 14. Priests: 500. Parishes: 500. Monasteries: 20. Faithful: 1,610,000

This Church looks after Orthodox in North Macedonia and in the Diaspora, in Australia and elsewhere.

Alexandria: Bishops: 33. Priests: 250. Parishes: 750. Monasteries: 3. Faithful: 800,000

Although for historical reasons its Patriarch is a Greek and his appointment is in the care of the Greek government, this Patriarchate is in Egypt. It also cares for St Catherine’s Monastery on Mt Sinai, but most of its faithful are Africans in 54 African countries.

Cyprus: Bishops: 17. Priests: 600. Parishes: 628. Monasteries: 67. Faithful: 654,000

Under an Archbishop, this Church cares for all Greek Orthodox in Cyprus

Poland: Bishops: 12. Priests: 420. Parishes: 278. Monasteries: 13. Faithful: 504,000

Under the Metropolitan of Warsaw, this Church cares for Orthodox of all origins who live mainly in eastern Poland.

Albania: Bishops: 6. Priests: 135. Parishes: 911. Monasteries: 150. Faithful: 173,000

Under the Archbishop of Tirana, this Church cares for Orthodox in Albania, many of whom are of Greek origin and live near the Greek border.

The Czech Lands and Slovakia: Bishops: 6. Priests: 197. Parishes: 240. Monasteries: 4. Faithful: 170,000

Led by a Metropolitan, this Church cares for Carpatho-Russian, Slovak and Czech Orthodox, as well as large numbers of Ukrainian Orthodox immigrants.

Jerusalem: Bishops: 14. Priests: 50. Parishes: 50. Monasteries: 25. Faithful: 130,000

Although its Patriarch is a Greek and his appointment is in the care of the Greek government, the flock consists of Palestinian Orthodox in Palestine and the Jordan.

North America (OCA): Bishops: 14. Priests: 1,098. Parishes: 700. Monasteries: 20. Faithful: 100,000

This Church began from the descendants of Slav immigrants to North America from the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, but is now a multinational group, not recognised by all but destined to be part of a future Northern American Orthodox Church.

 

We would be grateful to readers for any revisions to the above: it is very difficult to obtain exact statistics, though above we have done our best.

 

 

The Rout of NATO in its Proxy War against Russia and the Crisis for the Russian Church

A fish rots from the head.

International Proverb

2022

Four years ago, on 24 February 2022, a small and underequipped Russian expeditionary force at last, eight years too late, went into eastern Ukraine to stop the western Ukrainian (Galician) genocide of eastern and southern Ukrainians. There, over 14,000 civilians, men, women and over 400 children, had already been slaughtered by Nazi fanatics from the western Ukraine, many others had been maimed. The Russian aim was to force the western Ukrainians, who had been put into power in Kiev by the USA by violence, into talks. They wanted Kiev to grant human rights to all citizens of the Ukraine.

Millions of mainly eastern Ukrainians had already fled to Russia to escape the genocide by Kiev. And millions of mainly western Ukrainians then fled to Western countries where they were welcomed for political reasons with free accommodation and generous welfare payments. These bankrupting measures made hard-working Western people very jealous. Those mainly western Ukrainians, often with luxury cars, had fled their quite safe homes and jobs in order to protect their sons, so that they would not have to die for NATO in the Ukraine.

The talks, agreed to almost immediately by terrified Kiev, were successful, but on 1 April 2022 the main Western clown intervened and forbade Kiev to make peace. The Russians were taken aback. In their extreme naivety (and also incompetence, corruption, military unpreparedness and stubborn refusal to listen to others), they had not thought that NATO would want to start a war to destroy the Russian Federation and that it would accuse Russia, by far the largest country in the world and with a relatively small population, of wanting to expand its territory!!!

And in their naivety (and self-centredness and inward-looking isolation) the Russians had never considered that millions of Ukrainians would have been so brainwashed by propaganda that they would be willing to die on behalf of anti-Ukrainian NATO against Russia. The result of this naivety was that in the autumn and winter of 2022 the small and underequipped Russian expeditionary forces were humiliated and had to retreat, giving back cities and land to the Ukrainians.

2023-2026

In 2023 the Russians were forced to go on the defensive against the crazy, British-planned attempt by Kiev to break through to the Sea of Azov and take back more land from the Russian forces. Then the Ukrainian equivalent of the whole British Army was destroyed, all for nothing. Russia does know how to defend itself. After six massive Collective Western invasions of Russia by Europeans over the last 425 years (and none of Europe by Russia), the Russians have learned how to defend themselves.

From then on, and throughout 2024 and 2025, the conflict became a war of attrition. Mountains and mountains of obsolete Soviet and very expensive, but also obsolete, NATO equipment were destroyed. 1.8 million Ukrainian troops were killed, seriously wounded, captured, or else surrendered. Hundreds of thousands more deserted. This was not least as a result of their futile and very costly invasion of the southern tip of the Kursk province of Russia, which turned into a trap for them, if it was not planned as such.

Meanwhile, Russophobic Western Europe, which had cut itself off from Russian oil and gas, had slid into recession and bankruptcy. The USA had to undergo regime change with Trump, in order to avoid bankruptcy and yet another humiliating defeat, as per Vietnam and Afghanistan. Trump hurried to plead for peace with Moscow, which was demilitarising not only the Ukraine, but also the whole Collective West. In order to meet its aims, declared quite clearly on 24 February 2022, Moscow would now have to denazify the Ukraine and, as a much more difficult aim, denazify that same Collective West.

Given the massive attrition of NATO’s Ukrainian forces, Russia’s vastly superior industrial and military might and very small losses (about 100,000), 2026 will probably end the conflict, liberating the whole of the Ukraine, with its whole eastern and southern half, Russian until 1922, returning to Russia. And this will mean the rout of NATO and consequently the collapse of the EU leadership, effectively creating a self-imposed regime change. Now, some cowardly Western European leaders are starting to plead with Russia for mercy and to restore the relations which they themselves destroyed. Too late, Western Europe declared war on Russia, not the other way round. Russia will surely ignore the West until it repents and apologises.

The Rout of the West

Europe’s outdated, badly designed, but vastly overpriced arms, tanks, drones and artillery have been used to try and destroy Russia, though Russia has never tried to attack Western Europe. Europe’s outclassed military equipment has burned on the steppes. Now the Age of Impunity is over for the West. It has demilitarised and destroyed itself by its hubris. Only European hubris imagined that Russia is not by far the largest economy in all Europe and the fourth largest in the world, but just a ‘third world’ economy with some oil and gas and a few obsolete missiles.

Russia is all too capable of incompetence (for example, as with the Wagner group), but when it is motivated, it is unbeatable. Bismarck knew that. And all Western invasions of Russia have always ended in victory – for the Russians, and in rout – for the West. Why not learn from history? Ask Napoleon, Hitler and Biden. Megalomania never wins. However, megalomania is also why the Soviet Union collapsed. Its megalomania thought that it could run a multinational, but highly centralised Union. It could not.

The extraordinary thing is that the European Union (started the day after the collapse of the Soviet Union) repeated the same error. So far two countries have left that European Union, Greenland and the UK, (much wealthier Iceland, Norway and Switzerland and pro-Russian Serbia and its satellites never even bothered to join). Hungary, Slovakia and other countries nearby and with similar histories will be the next to leave. Centralisation means atrophy. It happened in the Soviet Union – I saw it with my own eyes. Since 1992 centralisation, and so atrophy, has also happened with the ‘European Union’. I saw it with my own eyes.

The leaders of the European Union, living in a fairy-tale of delusion, wishful thinking, virtual reality and fantasy, have no ambitions, no innovations, no initiatives, no new industries, no new technologies, no social media, no satellite navigation, no AI, no clothing fashions, no popular music, no creative culture of their own. All is copied from the USA, of which Europe is a colony and vassal in every way, politically and economically, spiritually and morally, socially and culturally. The first part of Europe to fall will be the UK. This is a country that has been ruled by a treasonous, Globalist elite of Zionists, cocaine-riddled homosexuals and pedophiles ever since 1997, when a Zionist homosexual’s creation, ‘New Labour’, came to power. Their first act was to abolish the death sentence for treason, that is, for themselves. And then, quite naturally, they made patriotism into a crime.

America and Russia

The American elite believes (believes, because it is an article of faith for them) that their country is exclusive, superior and exceptional. This is because they inherited the intolerant and bigoted mentality of fanatical Protestants, who were often sexually perverted misogynists, who could not get on with their compatriots and so left England. And when the zealots and fanatics left, English people who stayed behind, said: ‘Good riddance’.

This is why most Americans have no understanding of Europeans, including of the English. Unlike them, we are flexible, not driven by a fanatical ideology or filled with gunslinging hatred. We got rid of the Calvinists. We do not want them back. Our flexibility is why, today, despite the present dictatorial regime in the UK, voted in by only 19% of the electorate, there will be transformations. The morally deeply compromised Starmer will have to go and King Charles, who protected his brother from prison, will have to abdicate, simply in order to save the monarchy.

Today we are witnessing the great Russian military victory in the Ukraine and the rout of the degenerate perverts of the Western European and the US elite. The perverts bet everything on their loser Zelensky, the most highly paid court jester in the world, whom they put into power, despite what was evident to almost everyone: that he could not speak Ukrainian or English and is incompetent. The Western neo-feudal, oligarchic elite, degenerate, corrupt and irrelevant, will be swept aside, even though it has existed not just for eighty years, but for centuries.

The moral bankruptcy of the West is now obvious to the whole world. The members of the Western elite are not even immoral, but amoral. They behave like animals. However, for Russia, military victory also means something else. To win a military victory is only the start. Then you have to win the peace. And here is Russia’s great weakness, neither its generals, nor its politicians, nor its industrialists, nor its economists, but the hierarchy of its national Church.

The Meaning for the Orthodox Church

In Orthodox Church life, the members of the Greek Church elite, still proud of an Empire which fell nearly 600 years ago (!), are racially exclusive, ‘phyletist’ in Greek, that is, obsessed by Hellenism. However, the members of the Russian Church elite are totalitarian, that is, their mentality is exclusive, they are national conformists, whatever your race. Thus, in Church terms, the Russians put themselves out of communion with the Greek Orthodox world and then lost the Ukraine, Moldova and the Baltic States. They are, in effect, schismatic.

Moreover, they are on the point of losing Belarus and Central Asia, not to mention the whole of the Diaspora. Here is the fruit of their political centralisation. People of different languages and cultures will leave you, unless you accept them and co-operate with them as a Family. We must give independence to our children, allowing them to live as adults, instead of holding them in a straitjacket, and treating them as though you were driving a Soviet tank over them. Here is the catastrophic Russian failure, which saddens all Orthodox.

In 2003 Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow, whom I knew, expressed the hope that the Russian Church in Western Europe would become the foundation of a new Local Church of Western Europe. He was a churchman who had been born in and grown up in the Russian emigration in Estonia. He expressed our great hope, which we had been waiting for ever since 1988. It was to be dashed. However, after Patriarch Alexei passed away in 2008, all went from possible to impossible in Moscow, for all understanding of Non-Russians ceased.  Russian nationalism set in. Thus, was lost the Ukraine and Moldova. The Russian Church Diaspora, composed largely of Moldovans, is also lost, as Non-Russians in the Diaspora are treated as third-class citizens, as Metropolitan Vladimir of Moldova has publicly and privately remarked to us.

Just as the Greek Orthodox Diaspora committed suicide through racism, so the Russian Orthodox Diaspora committed suicide through the totalitarian and centralising mentality of the Church elite. The breath of freedom is here, but the Russian Church elite has not yet noticed. Russia has won a huge military victory against the whole Western elite. But its Church elite has suffered a huge spiritual defeat: it only has itself to blame. Bishops who hate priests (especially those senior to them and more experienced than them), and detest women and children, are the ones to blame. There is an English proverb which says: ‘It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness’. The proverb of such Russian bishops says: ‘It is better to curse the darkness than to light a candle’.

 

Half a Century in the Orthodox Church in Western Europe (1)

Introduction: Nothing New Under the Sun

Apart from one year in Greece and several months in the Soviet Union, and then in Russia and the Ukraine, with brief visits to Orthodox in Moldova, Romania, Belarus, Czechia, Slovakia, Finland, Serbia and Bulgaria, I have spent 51 years as an Orthodox Christian in Western Europe, 41 of them as an Orthodox clergyman in Western Europe, in France, Portugal and England, but with liturgical celebrations in Belgium, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. My conclusions?

First of all, there is nothing new under the sun. This is because human nature does not change. Anyone who reads the Acts of the Apostles or the writings of the Church Fathers from the first centuries knows that all the difficulties and scandals of today have already occurred in the past. Of 80,000 Orthodox priests, I have perhaps met perhaps 1,000 and of the 1,000 Orthodox bishops, I have met about 100. I have never seen anything new compared to the past.

Seven Local Churches exist in the Western European Diaspora today: the Romanian, the Greek (Constantinople), the Russian (divided into three parts, one of which refuses to be in communion with another, so is in fact in schism, as well as the 100 new but independent parishes of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church), the Serbian, and then the three very small groups under the Churches of Antioch, Bulgaria and Georgia. Only the three first big Churches carry any weight in terms of the Diaspora Church as a whole.

The Three Big Churches in 1976

Fifty years ago, there were two Russian bishops in this country. As they were both Russian, they were, naturally, at daggers drawn and out of communion with one another. One was an anthroposophist (look it up), a great eccentric who believed in Atlantis. The other one was a notorious womaniser. A few English people were allowed to join the two Russian groups, usually provided that they learned some Russian. This was because both groups were rapidly dying out (1917, after which most of the still living but elderly Russians had come here, was nearly sixty years before 1976). Priests, very few of them lived outside London and they were also elderly, spent much of their time doing funerals.

Fifty years ago, the Patriarchate of Constantinople in this country was dominated by Greek Cypriots, whose lives were largely devoted to Hellenism. Most had arrived here between 1950 and 1974. A homosexual archbishop preferred to ordain his boyfriends and one of his vicar-bishops was a pedophile, who at that time got away with it. Of course, there was at least one bishop who was excellent and many very virtuous priests and pious people. However, the opening to non-Greeks was all but non-existent. From the archbishop down, English people were told to go away, at best being told to join the Church of England or else to learn Greek, ‘if you want to become a Greek’, at worst being told to ‘go away’ by one Cypriot priest, only in the most vulgar way possible in the English language.

Fifty years ago, the Romanian Church was more or less inexistent, as the whole country was controlled by the Romanian Secret Police.

The Three Big Churches in 2026

Today, the Russians remain in small groups here, small because they have all failed to pass on the Faith to locally-born children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and so on. No Russian group has learned how to cope with assimilation. Today, the larger (still small) group is 100% attached to the Russian Federation, politically and in all other ways, and is much compromised by scandals. The smaller group, dominated by American Trumpians, just encourages the crazies and so spawns old calendarists, just as the Russian Church inside Russia once spawned old ritualists, and is much compromised by appalling scandals. Another even smaller group just hangs on. All three groups are dying out – for all have survived largely because of immigration from Moldova. By far the saddest thing about the Russian Church is that it did not learn from history and so it has condemned itself to repeat the same mistakes as before the Revolution. Today, inside the ex-Soviet Union, the Russian Church strangely resembles the pre-Revolutionary Russian Church, with the same politicisation, the same militarisation, the same empty ritualism, the same inhuman rigidity, the same pharisaic and blind repetition that only they are ‘canonical’, the same blind obedience to the hierarchy and the State, regardless of Christ and His teaching.

Today, the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople in this country, although still dominated by Greek Cypriots whose lives are largely devoted to Hellenism, has a very dynamic archbishop, whose English is better than his Greek, and who is desperately trying to save his archdiocese from self-extinction despite his elderly flock. As he said to us a few months ago, he has one hundred priests who are so old that they are likely to die within the next five years and three candidates to replace them. For forty years the previous administration ignored all the warnings that this would happen. The saddest thing about the Greek Church is that they did not learn from the suicide of the Russian Church, so they are condemned to repeat the same suicide and also die out.

The Romanian Patriarchate is today by far the largest Church as a result of the immigration of four to five million Romanians and Moldovans here over the last 20 years. Overall, our two Autonomous Romanian Orthodox Metropolias in Western Europe have 10 bishops, 1,283 churches and 30 monasteries, which makes them by far the largest Local Church in Western Europe. We are about four times larger than the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople in Western Europe, five times larger than the Russian Church in Western Europe (most of which is composed of Romanian-speaking Moldovans) and incomparably larger than the tiny ROCOR and Antiochian dioceses, both with less than 100, mainly tiny (between 10 and 50 people), communities.

Conclusion: The Challenge for the Romanian Church

Between 1917 and 1962 by far the largest Diaspora Church in Western Europe, albeit divided into three warring groups, was the Russian Church. Between 1962 and 2007 by far the largest was the Patriarchate of Constantinople. But they both lost their dominating positions and indeed the respect of others, the Russians through their isolationist totalitarian politics, which excludes Non-Russians, and their lack of communion with others, the Greeks through their sheer racism. Today some 85% of Orthodox here are Romanian or Moldovan. Can the Romanians, now by far the biggest group, keep their position and the respect of others?

The Romanian Church has many devout clergy and people. It has the Carpathian spirit of solidarity. We are together in the Romanian Church, this is the People’s Church, with a sense of community, family and friendship. The Romanian language is a Latin language, written in the Latin alphabet. There is neither the politics, nor the military-style rigidity of the Russians, nor the racism of the Greeks. Moreover, and most importantly, the Romanian Church alone is in communion with everyone, in schism with no-one. However, the Romanian Church still faces two great challenges.

The first weakness of the Romanian Church, at least in Romania, is the temptation of money. Any Romanian layperson will tell you of a bad experience in Romania with a member of the clergy who demanded money from them. This is why some Romanians have become Protestants. I have not seen this temptation in the Romanian Diaspora, but we cannot be complacent. The second weakness of the Romanian Church is the potential lack of openness to others, in other words, the weakness of nationalism. To found a new Local Church in the Diaspora means to be open to others, to warring Greeks and Russians in particular, to be able to co-operate with others in a common language, accepting different languages, calendars and customs, and not imposing one’s own. Is this possible? Will it too fail to learn from history and repeat the errors of the Russians, repeated by the Greeks? We await the inevitable verdict of the history of the future.

 

 

Russian Orthodox Church Disunity

The Orthodox Church is the bimillennial Confederation of Local Christian Churches, each largely covering one nationality, one language, one culture and one territory, Russian, Romanian, Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Arab, Albanian etc. Today there are sixteen Local Orthodox Churches in all and some have flocks in Western countries as a result of emigration, which has taken place either for economic or for political reasons. Over fifty years ago, in the 1970s in England, I was able to join the Orthodox Church through the émigré Russian Church, an emigration which had taken place after 1917 for political reasons.

Cut off from Russia and cut off from new emigres by Soviet atheism, the dying Church in the Russian emigration was really the only Local Orthodox Church which accepted or needed to accept Non-Russians. (Other Local Churches would generally not even accept those of another nationality. Since then, barriers to other nationalities have to some extent been broken, but that is another story). However, as a result of the political nature of its emigration, the émigré Russian Church was split into three warring parts, none of which was in communion. They were split by political beliefs, which is the only reason why Churches split.

The largest and most international émigré fraction was called the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), composed of anti-Communist emigres and centred in the USA. Then came a smaller part which we may call the Paris Emigration (PE), centred in France and composed of emigres who favoured a Western liberal political system for Russia. Finally, there came by far the smallest part, called the Moscow Patriarchate (MP), composed of emigres who, though members of the Church, out of patriotism turned a blind eye to Soviet atheism. What is the position now, 35 years after Soviet atheism?

The ideology of Soviet atheism was replaced by another ideology, Russian nationalism. Nevertheless, as a result of the fall of Soviet atheism, both ROCOR and PE came into communion with the MP and, briefly, with each other. This was based on sympathy for Russia, but not on full sympathy, as the Westernised descendants of both émigré groups today represent not Russian nationalism, but, respectively, US nationalism and Western liberalism. And for this ironic reason the very aggressive and ideological ROCOR group is no longer in communion with the PE. Thus, division continues, again because of politics.

Thus, even if ideologies have switched from what they were when the Soviet Union existed, they are still here. Having worked for fifty years to bring the three warring émigré groups together, the present lack of communion is tragic for me. Sadly, the younger generation of ROCOR is so Americanised, one might say, narcissistically and imperialistically Trumpian, that it does not accept any views other than its own. Such sectarian exclusivity betrays a vision of the Church which is opposed to the Church as Christian communion and sees it as an exclusive and intolerant sect which condemns and punishes all who disagree.

As regards the fall of the MP into nationalism, this was a logical development from the old Soviet nationalism of the period before the fall of the USSR, but in a new form. Soviet nationalism was paradoxical for Orthodox, as how could Christians be loyal to Soviet atheism? However, this Russian nationalism is also paradoxical. It makes of the Church an Army, a spirit of militarism, ritualism and clericalism, according to which everything is literally uniform, in which there is no place for personal spiritual inspiration and diversity. All isms quench the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth and Love, and nationalism is no different.

Thus, all three parts of the Russian Church illustrate divisiveness and exclusivity through the adoption of different political ideologies, tragically putting Caesar above Christ. Until all three parts of the Russian Church revert to full Orthodoxy, abandoning political or nationalist ideologies of any sort, there will be no general Orthodox unity. The sign of the reversion of the Russian Church to Orthodoxy will be in its recovery of Catholicity, that is, in its renewed and visible communion with the peoples of all other Local Churches. Once we see that, we shall see a renewed and valuable Russian contribution to Pan-Orthodox unity.

 

 

 

The New World Order and Orthodox Christianity

Eurasia

In 2026 we have finally entered the real New World Order. Afro-Eurasia, including the Ukraine and Western Europe, is now being freed of the last remnants of the European and American colonial empires. Asia, by far the greatest and most populous Continent (over 60% of the world’s people) is being separated into North Asia (also called Eurasia, and eventually to include its Western European tip), led by Russia; East Asia, led by China; South Asia, led by India; and West Asia, which will be led by the Islamic world, once it has been freed from US-Israeli divide and rule policies and begins to work together.

After the US defeats in Eurasia, in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and a few days ago, in Iran, where it was frightened off by its advanced missiles, the Americans are scurrying back to the Western hemisphere and a first adventure in Venezuela, kidnapping the President and his wife. With the US leaving Eurasia, France too is being thrown out of its last footholds in Africa by Russia. It is clear that Africa and Eurasia are being freed, despite hesitations in the South Korean peninsula, on the island of Taiwan, in parts of Thailand, in the settler colony of Israel and in the north-western tip of the peninsula known as ‘Europe’.

Europe and the Rest of the World

Some ask why it is the tiny Baltic States in ‘Europe’ which are so opposed to being part of Russian-led North Asia. It is because its US-imposed elites are the last converts to the obsolete Western Establishment ideology that ‘the West is Best’. The UK left the EU – the Baltics are fanatics for it. For as recent converts, these Eastern European neophytes are more Western than the West, ‘more royalist than the King’, as the French say. They are the last believers in Western superiority, together with the tiny number of its ideologues of the Western European elite. Western people have never believed in their elitist nonsense.

As for Africa, it is separating into Northern and Islamic Africa and Southern and Christian Africa. Then there is Oceania with its very large territory but tiny population, dominated by Australia, whose economy is now largely dependent on China and East Asia. It too has already moved away from the UK and the USA. Finally, there are the Americas, or ‘the Western Hemisphere’, dominated by the USA, which is separated into Northern and largely English-speaking America, and Southern or Latin, largely Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking America. The latter has yearned for generations to liberate itself from Yankee oppression.

Greenland

However, Latin America is now breaking free from US domination. For the USA is too busy absorbing Greenland and may be too busy trying to absorb Canada. After all, Greenland is the Western shield of the USA and once it has been absorbed, Canada will be surrounded. Tiny colonialist Denmark and weakling Europe, whose self-styled Napoleonic leader, Macron, sports dark glasses to cover his black eye, given him by his husband, will not defend the colonial anachronism of Greenland. In 1974 NATO Turkey invaded Cyprus and NATO Greece and the rest of NATO did absolutely nothing. Why would they act now?

Trump’s interest is to end European colonies in North America through taking Greenland. His excuse? The waters around Greenland are infested by Russian and Chinese ships – invisible to everyone else. If Europe expels the USA from its bases in Europe, Trump will be only too pleased to end NATO – and also to distract from Epstein. The European Globalist banker leaders will simply appease Trump, as they did Hitler in the 1930s. Yes, Trump is prepared to go to war to obtain the Nobel Peace Prize. In this distraction, Kiev oligarchs argue and Russia cuts off power in the Ukraine, copying the tactics of the USA in Serbia.

Although Greenland is much smaller than shown on absurd world maps, it is still twice the size of California, currently the largest state of the USA. However, unlike ‘the sunshine state’, with a population some 750 times greater than Greenland’s, Greenland is covered in very thick ice. Possibly, if you knew where to drill down through hundreds of metres of ice, some useful minerals could be found. But that would make them very expensive minerals. The Greenland block of ice is rapidly turning into the block of ice that sank the Titanic, only this time this Titanic is the sinking ship of relations between the USA and Western Europe.

Europe’s Weakness

Trump wants to seize Greenland in a land grab vanity project. It is inhabited by 55,000 people who live in peace and do not want to be invaded, but that is OK with Europe. However, when Russia invaded the Ukraine, inhabited by huge numbers of ethnic Russian Ukrainians, who asked to be invaded, or rather, ‘liberated’ by Russia, since they were being genocided by an illegal, anti-democratic, Fascistic, US-installed regime in Kiev, that was not OK. Hypocritical double standards have morally discredited the Western world so much that the phrase ‘Western values’ has now become a subject for worldwide laughter.

Trump saw European weakness, when they called him ‘Daddy’. So he decided to take European territory in a repeat of US Independence from Europe in 1776, 250 years ago. The Europeans have brought this on themselves. The Germans allowed the Americans and their proxies (Russian-hating Danes among them) to blow up the Nordstream pipeline, so they would become dependent on overpriced US liquified gas. Russia never cut Europeans off from Russian gas. The Americans did. Now the Europeans have no Russian gas and, if they defy the Americans in Greenland, they will also lose American gas. Karma for Denmark.

Orthodox Christianity

We have for now entered a Tripolar World of China, the USA and Russia. The last of these is, nominally, Orthodox Christian. All the prophecies agree that its present leader will be succeeded by a Tsar. After various Orthodox peoples, like the Ukrainians, the Belarussians, the Baltics etc have at last received their inevitable Church independence (Autocephaly), this Tsar will still directly represent over 50% of all Orthodox. Then at last authentic Orthodox missionary work can begin. At present, this is not possible, as the Russian Church, once captive to Soviet atheism, is now captive to extreme Russian nationalism.

Russian nationalism openly and publicly rejects, sometimes very aggressively, all Non-Russian Orthodox. They complain how for decades they have been treated like third-class citizens by Russians. In fact, the Russian Church is now in schism with other parts of the Orthodox Christian world. However, it has also alienated many other Orthodox, in the Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Baltics and throughout the Orthodox world. It will need a Tsar to reverse the disastrous clericalism, ritualism, militarism and nationalism that so disfigure today’s Russian Church, which is lost in the labyrinth of these post-Soviet deviations.

 

 

Keeping the Faith: Pastoral Considerations and Church Unity in the Diaspora

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Psalm 133, 1

Exactly 50 years ago I stood in the then newly-built Serbian church in Birmingham and listened to a sermon given by the late Fr Vladimir (later Bp Basil) Rodzianko. He spoke of the ‘sin of jurisdictions’ and looked forward idealistically to a time when there would no longer be any jurisdictions. I knew then that that was unrealistic. Indeed, 50 years have passed and there are now more ‘jurisdictions’ than ever. After over fifty years of life in the Orthodox Diaspora in Western Europe, divided into several separate Church jurisdictions, I have come to certain conclusions.

These conclusions were fed firstly by observing how the post-1917 Russian Diaspora died out in Western Europe (as a clergyman in Paris in the 1980s and 1990s I buried many of its last very elderly representatives, who had been adults before 1917). Then, secondly, I have seen how the 1950s Greek Cypriot Diaspora has also nearly completely died out in Britain. They both died out because they failed almost wholly to pass on the Faith to their locally born generations.

In 1973, I met the future Metr Kallistos (Ware), who tried and failed to unite local Russian, Greek and Serbian Orthodox into one shared church in Oxford. In 1980 I met the late Fr Alexander Schmemann, who invited me to become a priest in the USA. I politely refused his offer, as I felt my place was in Europe. I witnessed how in North America his attempt to found a new Local Church, called the OCA (the Orthodox Church in America), failed to unite Orthodox there – it unites only some 10-15% of Orthodox. Both were valiant attempts by sincere and often admirable people to do good, but both failed.

Others also tried to do something in this respect, like those who argued with each other, Fr (now St) Sophrony (Sakharov) and Metr Antony (Bloom), who tonsured me reader in 1981. The outstanding figure with Fr Sophrony was undoubtedly Fr Raphael (Noica), who gave me very good advice between 1975 and 1983. Another influence was Protopresbyter Alexei Kniazev, the rector of the St Sergius Institute of Orthodox Theology, where I studied.

However, the most outstanding figure I met was Archbishop Antony (Bartoshevich) of Geneva, who ordained me priest in 1991, after I had served for seven years as a deacon. He led the multinational Archdiocese of Western Europe, veering neither towards liberal modernism, nor to sectarian old calendarism. He was the successor of St John Maximovich as Archbishop of Western Europe. Clergy of seventeen different nationalities concelebrated at his funeral.

One of the problems with the experiments in Oxford and the USA was the lack of respect for the people in the parishes. Firstly, any Diaspora parish must use at least two languages, that of the main national group (or national groups, if there is more than one) and the local language. The latter is necessary for the children and grandchildren of immigrants in the Church, for the locally-born spouses of the inevitable mixed marriages, as well as for those received into the parish from local people who wish to join the Orthodox Church.

We do not wish the children of immigrants to lose the language of their parents, but they go to school in English, they think in English, they speak their parents’ language with an English accent. If they can understand the Church in English, then they will not reject the Church in the language of their parents. This is a psychological fact and, as any pastor will tell you, more than 50% of what we do is understanding our parishioners’ psychology.

Respect must also be shown for the calendars used by the parishioners, and for their cultures and customs. In order to do this, there may need to be at least two priests of different nationalities in each parish and choirs must be organised. We have seen too many cases of just the opposite, of disrespect and even mockery for different languages, calendars, cultures and customs. That is unacceptable because it is unChristian. Expressions of hatred for others are unChristian and eventually will lead to the downfall of parishes and even of whole dioceses. We are eyewitnesses of this. You cannot build a Church on negativity or hatred.

Here is a brief outline as to how we could perhaps proceed to keep locally-born generations inside the Church and also to help unite the Diaspora Church, which is divided administratively. The secret is in not being exclusive. Thus:

  1. No National Flags

A Church with flags is a Church which divides. Christ has no flag. Our only ‘flag’ is the Cross. Flags belong to the secular world, not to Christ. The absence of a flag, Russian, Greek, Romanian, Serbian or other, does not of course mean that it can be replaced by a local flag, by some sort of local nationalism, British, American, French or other. That is just as negative. If we want to have flags with their nationalism, let us keep them at home and not bring them to church.

  1. No Political Ideologies or ‘Isms’

Ideologies, or ‘isms’, are always divisive because they are narrow and sectarian. For instance, I have witnessed how the OCA tried to impose the new calendar on Slav origin parishes in the USA and condescendingly impose non-traditional, liberal and even modernist liturgical practices on them. This was very divisive and as a result many parishes left the OCA and many more did not want to join it. They felt they had been excluded.

On the other hand, I have also witnessed how certain clergy in one Russian emigration splinter tried to impose an extreme right-wing ideology, allied with old calendarism. They promoted themselves rather pharisaically as an exclusive ‘One True Church’, refusing concelebration and communion with the Local Churches, as ‘they are in error’ and ‘we do not like them’.

This sectarianism was very divisive and it only attracts converts from Catholicism and Protestantism with pathological problems, while turning away from the Church those with healthy psychologies. Such an aggressive splinter can never be part of a future Local Church and does not want to be. That is why we belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church, away from all extremes and schisms.

  1. No Money

What makes Orthodox of all nationalities reject their own Church more than anything else is the story that the clergy are only interested in money. Fixed tariffs for baptisms, weddings, funerals, memorials etc are fatal in this respect. The stories of laypeople about such matters, true or untrue, are legion. Either priests must have a secular profession and parishioners pay only for the often high costs of the church-building, or else an arrangement must be made with parishioners that they make known their salaries and they give a percentage of their salaries to the priest. In this way the priest’s salary will be the average of their salaries. For example, if there are 100 salaried parishioners, they could each give 1% of their salary to the priest. If there are 200 salaried parishioners, they could each give 0.5% of their salary to the priest etc.

The Church as a Family

Without national flags, political ideologies or money scandals, if we wish to keep everyone together inside the Church, then we must experience the Church as a warm and loving Family, to which all Orthodox can belong.

Orthodox who have been uprooted from their homelands, usually for economic or else, as in the Communist past, for ideological reasons, want to belong to something. Perfectly naturally, they have a problem of identity. ‘Who am I’?, they ask. However, those born locally, of such Russian, Greek, Romanian, Serbian or other immigrant parents, and who all speak the local language better than that of their parents, also want to belong to something, they also have a problem of identity. I tell all my people that, although we have a State passport with a flag on it, our spiritual passport has no flag, or political party, and under the Nationality section, it says: ‘Orthodox Christian’. This is our spiritual nationality and identity, we belong to the Orthodox Christian Family. Our unity is in our common Orthodox Christian Faith and Love.