Posted on 12/07/2021 5:55:20 PM PST by marshmallow
Nine hierarchs boycott 'heretic' Francis, Greeks snub ecumenical prayer
NICOSIA, Cyprus (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Orthodox archbishop of Cyprus has dropped a bombshell on Francis, lecturing the pontiff on Turkey's "ethnic cleansing" of Cypriot Christians and asking him to imitate Pope Benedict XVI's support for Cyprus against the Islamic aggressor.
"Turkey barbarically attacked us and by force of arms conquered 38% of our homeland and its Christian inhabitants, always expelling them from their patriarchal lands," His Beatitude Chrysostomos II reminded Francis during the pope's visit to Nicosia.
Addressing the pope in the presence of the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus at St. John's Orthodox Cathedral Friday, the prelate described how the Turks looted the Byzantine churches, priests, mosaics and paintings "with incredible and unprecedented barbarity."
"Not only did they imitate the bloodthirsty barbarity of Attila the Hun, but they surpassed him," Chrysostomos stressed.
"And based on their abominable plans, they changed all our historical place names so that nothing Greek or Christian exists."
"In this holy and just struggle of ours, Your Holiness, we want to have your own active support," Chrysostomos pleaded, noting how Pope Benedict XVI had responded to an earlier request by the Church of Cyprus and mediated through the German government.
As a result of Benedict's intervention, "we were able to bring back 500 fragments of our Byzantine culture, which Turkish archaeologists had transported to Munich," the archbishop pointed out.
"We also look forward to your help, Your Holiness, to safeguard and respect our cultural heritage and to uphold the timeless values of our Christian culture, which are being brutally violated by Turkey today," Chrysostomos urged.
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Antipope Bergolio is nothing but a sick crypto-Marxist agitator and he is not a Christian or even a decent man.
Bergoglio probably has no clue whatsoever about the true nature of the struggle in the old world.
When has the Pope stepped up to defend persecuted Christians?
Ping
"I'm very interested in what the Greek Church will do when the heretic of the Vatican steps on the sanctified soil of our Greek homeland, which is watered with the blood of many martyrs and heroes," Metropolitan Andreas told Greek Orthodox media in November.
"The coming of the heresiarch Francis Bergoglio to Orthodox Greece," could "only serve to harm the Church," Andreas warned, while Seraphim called for "an end to fruitless and harmful dialogues with heretics."
On Saturday, an elderly Greek Orthodox priest heckled Francis as the pontiff arrived at the residence of Abp. Hieronymos in Athens. "Pope, you are a heretic!" the cleric shouted three times before police intervened and took him away.
Timeo danaos et dona ferentes.
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