Before any engage in flaming the Patriarch let it be known that his brother, Archbishop Peter, was kidnapped by the Syrian “rebels” four years ago and has not been heard from since.
The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of America has been praying without ceasing—in every Great Ektania—meaning at every Liturgy “for Archbishop Peter and Archbishop John, for their release from captivity and for their safe return”.
There are some of us who fear that the “safe return” may mean the recovery of their Relics.,
You are blessed if you have Metropolitans whose remains might be considered relics. Prayers up from this Roman