Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew against the ‘third Rome’
The Ecumenical Patriarch questions his Moscow counterpart Kirill and criticizes the ideology of “pan-Slavism”. He rejects the nationalist heresy and supports the apostolic universalism of the origins. In Russian Orthodoxy, religion is instrumentalized for political and ideological reasons. The help of the Church of Rome is needed to overcome the differences between “Greeks and Russians”. … Read more