Archpriest Saša Petrović: Eastern Rite Protestantism, the destructive influence of Archbishop Elpidophorus on orthodoxy in America
Speech from the International Conference blockades of aggression against the church: defending orthodoxy, which was held on 26. August 2024. years at BTA, Sofia, Bulgaria
Archpriest Saša Petrović
Your Excellencies, honorable fathers and honored participants of this conference, help God!
It is a great honor and pleasure to have the opportunity to participate in this important conference and on this occasion I would like to welcome His Holiness Patriarch Daniel of Bulgaria and congratulate him on his election . Long-term holy bishop and on the pole of the Bulgarian Orthodox people, as well as the whole orthodoxy. I would also like to thank the Center for geostrategic studies for organizing this very important conference, as well as for the honor given to me.
Orthodoxy is the last barrier to the establishment of the new world neoliberal – post-humanist Antichrist order, in which the entire planet Earth is to be transformed into a perfectly organized camp in which the 1% of the enormously wealthy will have complete control over the enslaved majority, that is, over those who survive all the laboratory-made diseases, wars and revolutions.as well as the vaccine. Therefore, we should not be surprised that some senior officials of NATO and the Pentagon openly say that Orthodoxy poses a threat to their planned World Order. We are witnessing innumerable external blows and pressures on all majority Orthodox countries and peoples. The key fistfight of the globalist cabal is the so – called transgender LGBT-plus, a movement that should break the Orthodox ethos and , in the first place, destroy the family as the basic cell of human society. This movement aims to destroy every national, ethnic, religious, and even sexual identity, in order to eventually have a formless mass that accepts every kind of tyranny, without the ability to distinguish good from evil. In other words, Satan wants the complete annihilation of the human race, and therefore the destruction of the image of God through which man was created.
These external pressures are enormous and supported by unlimited amounts of money, they have the apolitical support of the mass media, and often the governments that are at the head of the Orthodox countries in the Balkans, who act as puppets in the hands of globalists. However, a much more dangerous threat to Orthodoxy is posed by those who work from within to break up the Orthodox Church, to destroy the Orthodox ethos, dogmatic and moral teaching, in a word they are very committed to destroying the Church as a God-human institution.
In this presentation, we will pay attention to the destructive actions of the patriarch of Constantinople for America, Archbishop Elpidophorus, who, following the example of his spiritual father and Patriarch Bartholomew, has completely put himself in the service of the powers of darkness aimed at the destruction of the Orthodox Church and the reign of the Antichrist.
During his six-year tenure as Greek American archbishop (GA), Archbishop Elpidophorus made numerous steps and made various statements that are in stark contrast to the teaching of the Orthodox Church, which is based on Scripture and Sacred Tradition, and which was formulated in the Ecumenical Councils and the works of the Holy Fathers.
In this presentation, we will present the evidence in which Arch.Elpidophorus publicly and openly advocates the legalization of abortion, supports sodmia and tramples on all moral Christian principles, praises Freemasonry, kisses the hand of the Roman Pope, openly professes the heresy of perennialism, that is, the teaching that all religions have the fullness of truth that leads them to God, only in different ways; how recklessly trample all the rules and canons and much more.
Also, we will compare how the teachings and statements of Arch. Elpidophora Kosa with the teachings infallibly handed over to us by the Ecumenical Councils, through the Holy canons and the conciliatory teachings of the Holy Fathers.
See the entire lecture of Father Saša Petrović at the following link:
Heretical teaching Arch. Elpidophore on perennialism
In his address at the International Freedom of religion summit 2021.
Arch.Elpidophor: "When you elevate one religion above the others, it is as if you have decided that there is only one way to the top of the mountain. But in truth you just don't see many roads leading to the same destination, because you are surrounded by rocks of prejudice that obscure your view.”
He also wrote a speech read at the opening of the largest Hindu temple in America, in which he says"This Hindu temple is a sacred place. I send you my congratulations and blessing for the success and flourishing of this sacred enterprise.”
These profane blasphemies are in direct contradiction with the words of the Lord Jesus Christ who says: ”I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.” (JN.14:6)
And St. John the theologian teaches us in his first Conciliar Epistle the words:"But any spirit that does not acknowledge that Jesus Christ came in flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and is now already in the world.” (the first Jn. 4:3)
The Prophet David tells us in 96. the psalm states that the gods of the gentile nations are demons, and St. Paul confirms this in his first epistle to the Corinthians (10:20). ”What the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, not to God.” Can we imagine one of the Holy Apostles attending the opening ceremony of the pagan temple and saying in his sermon that the place is holy?!
Supporting abortion
This is the part of the discourse that arch. Elpidofor proizvod2022. at the annual” March For Life " held against the terrible sin of infanticide that has become so common not only in America, but also in many Orthodox countries. Arch. Elpidophorus has put forward bizarre and confusing views that can only be interpreted as abortion being a sin and something that is not ideal and should never be legalized.: ”Every life is worthy of our prayer and protection, whether in the womb or in the world. Also, at the same time, we affirm our respect for the autonomy of women (the female body) it is they who bring life into this world. Through his incarnation, our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ took upon himself human nature through his conception in the womb of the Virgin Mary. The Virgin Mary freely decided to bring it to this the world and God respected her freedom.” If there is any doubt in the position of AR.On this issue, these scandalous statements are found on the official website of the Greek Archdiocese, as well as on his personal social media accounts.
That same year, the Archbishop said:: "Abortion has existed for thousands of years and the Church has never supported it. But at the same time, we believe in the personal freedom of each human person. As a general rule, women carry the entire burden of giving birth and raising children, while men, who are otherwise directly involved in the process of conception, do not carry the same burden. That is why we must support women's rights and their freedom of Will in making reproductive decisions.”
As you can see, Arch.Elpidophorus never uses the word murder or infanticide, but makes ambiguous statements at the same time accepting the sanctity of life and the legal freedom of women to make decisions about whether or not to give birth to a child. If abortion is Murder, How is it possible to support its legalization in secular law?
Giving Holy Communion to the non-Orthodox
The folk saying is that Sin After Sin is valid, so when one red line is crossed, then every other one is crossed even easier. Archiep. Elpidophorus allowed the priests of the Greek Archdiocese to take communion with the non-Orthodox spouses who were married to the Orthodox.
”I wondered how I could offer the holy mystery of marriage to a Christian who is not a member of my church, and that is what we do in so-called mixed marriage when we accept believers from non-Orthodox churches. Personally, I would also give them the Holy Sacrament of communion to those (non-Orthodox) spouses who entered into a mixed marriage in the Orthodox Church”. This is something that has never and nowhere been allowed in the Orthodox Church because those who receive Communion from the same cup must have the same faith. The communion from the same cup represents the highest degree of unity.
Controversial and problematic pastoral decisions
Ahiep. Elpidophorus has a long history of making controversial and problematic pastoral decisions. As we have seen in the previous evidence that the Archiepus. Elpidofor advocates respect for free will in making personal ”health ”decisions on abortion, when it comes to that same freedom on the issue of vaccines, to which millions of people have been forced against their will, the Archbishop has a completely different attitude, so in September 2021 he banned the priests of his archdiocese from to whom a believer is issued certificates of exemption from an experimental and dangerous vaccine, even though they were entitled to exemption under U.S. religious freedom laws.
At its session the Holy Synod of the Greek Archbishopric made a decision saying: "While some people may be exempted from the vaccine on medical grounds, there is no exemption in the Orthodox Church for its faithful for any vaccine on religious grounds , including for the corona virus vaccine. For this reason, the letters-certificates for vaccine exemption on religious grounds issued by the priests of the archdiocese for America are of no importance, and priests may not issue such certificates to anyone, from any reason”
It is impossible to arch. Elpidophorus did not know that because of this ban many members of his spiritual flock would lose their jobs, as it happened. For the sake of truth, it should be said that he was not the only bishop who did this. There were many in all jurisdictions. I can freely conclude that during the corona virus plan, the Orthodox missed a historic opportunity to practically and publicly testify to their faith and convert millions of Americans to Orthodoxy. Almost every day I received requests from people in various Orthodox jurisdictions from all over America. To all who sought , I came out to meet and the certificate I gave them helped almost everyone to keep their job, preserve the autonomy of their own body and to save themselves from this evil that has mowed down many young lives.
Change in the way of communion
Archiep. Elpidophorus was a fervent advocate of the introduction of unprecedented changes in the way of communion during the Kovid plan-Demia, and thus ”preventive sanitary measures” were quickly and aggressively introduced throughout the Greek Archdiocese, even more than the medical profession required. Keeping distance, mandatory masks and special communion spoons became a requirement in all temples under his jurisdiction. In some parishes they went so far that at the entrance to the temple they measured the temperature and had attendants who literally physically removed the ”disobedient” faithful from the service.
"The instruments we use during communion are earthly instruments. If I put a metal spoon in my mouth, that same spoon can transmit a virus or any other disease.” And while arch Elpidophorus still claimed that he believed that Holy Communion could not transmit any disease, a teaspoon, according to him, could.
Not only is a teaspoon dipped in the purified blood of the Lord Jesus Christ after each Communion, but from the Gospel we see that the bloodthirsty woman received healing by touching only a part of Christ's clothing, which was in direct contact with his body – thus healing came to her through the physical matter that was in contact with his body. If we truly believe that the Holy Communion is the true body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, then it is impossible to think that the physical instrument with which we use to receive it, can be a carrier of any disease.
Ecumenical common prayers with heretics
Although the Holy canons very clearly and decently prohibit common prayers with heretics, they are unscrupulously trampled on by ecumenists who, under the banner of love and communion, relativize Orthodox dogmas and even publicly confess long-condemned and anathematized heresies. And here is arch. Elpidophorus is superior to others and crosses many red lines, and is thus very often seen praying with heretics and even non-Christians. In March 2024, he met at a joint prayer with the head of the Ukrainian Uniate Greek-Catholic ”Church” and is known for his fanatical support of Ukrainian neo-Nazi schismatics who, together with the Ukrainian authorities, kidnap temples, beat Bishops, and kill priests and believers of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox church.
In a speech he delivered in 2019 at St. Demetrius temple in Astoria, New York, Arch. Elpidophorus said that the Copts, Armenians, and Indians who reject the Chalcidonian Council are brothers, not heretics, and have an apostolic claim.: "Who is the heretic? Does this apply to churches that are not Orthodox? This is not what the Apostle Paul thinks. But the Heretic is the noise, the one who causes problems. The one who divides people and divides, the one who brings in hate. This is a heretic. Other Christian Brothers who are not Orthodox are not heretics. They are our brothers, they are Christians.”
June 11, 2021 Arch. Elpidophorus served the Liturgy at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in Manhattan, New York. This "church" is known for its ardent support of the LGBTQ movement and has a page dedicated to its gay members on its official website. Just 5 days before Elpidophor served the liturgy in this temple, the ”solemn consecration” of the LJBT pride flag was carried out, which was placed at the entrance of the temple. Entering the temple, Elpidophorus passed under a flag symbolizing sodomy . In his speech, he said: ” the Ecumenical goal of building bridges instead of building walls is the core of being a Christian.”
Archbishop Elpidophorus in the Society of dark people
Arch. Elpidophorus is also known for often seeing people who are not only of dubious morality, but are publicly declared masons and homosexuals and who publicly oppose the moral and dogmatic teaching of the Orthodox Church.
In a video format, he blessed the convention of the Democratic Party, which selected Joe Biden as its presidential candidate. Everyone knows that Biden is passionate about supporting abortion, transgenderism, gay marriage and other things that are nasty in front of the Lord. Not only did Elpidophorus publicly give him political support, but he expressed the opinion that "President Joe Biden is a man of faith who is very sensitive about religious freedom.”
In 2023, Elpidofor gave a welcome speech at the U.S. intelligence summit in Washington. Also, Archbishop Elpidophorus wrote the preface to the Greek version of the book ”nu o'politiki” authored by Nicholas Laos - Master Mason, who also wrote other dark works as ”the Enlightenment of Free Masonry in the context of modern and perfecting the rites of symbolic masonry”. ” What does it mean to be an Illuminati”;”Freemasonry, World Order and thought Wars". Dr. Laos, who claims to be an expert in Western Esotericism, also works as a consultant to many international intelligence services.
Photo: Elpidofor at the U.S. intelligence summit in Washington
In the preface to the above-mentioned book, Arch. Elpidophore says: ” It is with great joy and pleasure that I read this work of the outstanding intellectual Nicholas Laos in the fields of Philosophy, Theology and politics. This bright work is filled with academic rigor and great audacity. With all my soul, I congratulate Nicholas Laos for his sharpness in writing this work that fills the great void that existed in the fields of Philosophy, Theology and politics.”
As early as 1933, the Jewish Church officially condemned Freemasonry, and in its official statement said that ”between Christianity and Freemasonry there are incompatible opposites” that Freemasonry is a ”false and anti-Christian system” and that Freemasonry compared to the Christian faith is ”a completely different, separate and foreign ideology ”. But as we've seen so many times before, Arch.Elpidophorus does not pay much attention to the teaching of the church or even Greece.
July 2020 Arch. Elpidofor joined a march organized by the Black Lives Matter Marxist organization, just a day after a Greek-born police officer was killed in Las Vegas by members of the terrorist organization of the same name.
April 2024 Elpidofor received at his residence in New York Stefanos Kaselakis about whom he wrote on his Twitter account "I was pleased to receive the opposition leader Stefanos Kaselakis, who is a child of our family, who respects the values and role of our church. We wish him success in his efforts for progress in our beloved Greece.”
Mr. Kaselakis is a publicly declared homosexual and a key political figure who advocates the legalization of gay marriage. Can such a person be said to " respect the values of the Orthodox Church”??
However, this is not the first time that arch.Elpidofor praises the representatives and activists of the LJBT-KJU movement.
In 2022, he spoke at the Center for Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham University. This group of” Orthodox " theologians openly advocate the blessing of gay marriage in the Orthodox Church and have published numerous texts on this topic on their website "Public Orthodoxy"” The institution's deputy director, Konstantin Papanikolau, openly and without hesitation calls on church leaders to recognize gay marriage as Holy Communion as marriage between a husband and wife. In the first picture we see Papanikolau standing behind Elpidophore, and in the second picture we see Bishop Irinej Dobrijevic of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the company of a pro-LDŽBT theologian of the same name. In the opinion of Elpidophorus, Papanikolau is "intellectual par-excellence"that is why he expresses his gratitude to Fordam University for what he has grown for himself. ” a life-filled Center for Orthodox Christian Studies, which nurtures and promotes our common aspirations of Christian unity.”
Baptism of children adopted by two homosexuals
In addition to all the scandals committed so far by arch. Elpidophorus, the culmination of all satanic Sabbaths, represents the baptism he performed in a temple on the outskirts of Athens. Namely, two wealthy gays of Greek descent, Evangelo Busis and Peter dandas, adopted all the boys that arch. Eidofor baptized in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Church of Jelada, without the blessing and permission of the competent Bishop, who did not know what kind of baptism would be performed.
Of course, this scandalous act caused a whole avalanche of resentment both in Greece and in ecumenical orthodoxy, and even in the Greek Archdiocese itself in America. Everyone realized that by this act of baptism two boys who were adopted by two sodomites, Arch.Elpidophorus retroactively convalesced their God-hating relationship, which they call marriage. This act effectively opens the door to a Future Act of same-sex marriage and adoption. In some parishes under the jurisdiction of Arch. Elpidophora gay couples publicly approach St. I will take communion together, and it is said that for wealthy gay couples weddings are performed secretly, in exotic destinations and of course with a good tip. I personally had an insight into the text of that God-like and sodomistic act of ” gay marriage”, but unfortunately I lost that text along with an old computer that broke down.
Of course, Elpidophorus ' answer was that he only performed baptism to which everyone is entitled: "Our Christian faith teaches us that God loves all his children and makes no distinction between them by any criteria. It may not be familiar enough to you, but the Church does not deprive, and in the case of a young child, it cannot deprive anyone of the holy mystery of baptism.”
And when asked for his opinion on legalizing gay marriage in Greece, he replied: ”Let me quote The Holy Scripture:” give to Caesar Caesar. We theologians today cannot maintain our views by looking only at the past, however sacred and glorious it may be. We must also respect modern developments in science, medicine and psychology.” If we were to be guided by this logic set forth by arch. Elpidophorus, then there is no reason why priests should not go door to door and baptize the children of atheists, Muslims, Buddhists, or satanists. What is the purpose of baptizing a child, and then literally delivering him into the clutches of beasts, who will sexually abuse them and educate them to be ungodly and sodomite?
We know that for baptism there must be some preconditions – for adult faith and repentance, and for children, godparents must be exemplary Orthodox Christians, while in this case one of the godparents is not even of Orthodox faith at all.
Failure to comply with the canonical decisions of other bishops and jurisdictions
Since it easily tramples on the sacred dogmas and moral teaching of the Orthodox Church, we should not be surprised by the fact that arch. Elpidophorus, following the example of his primate and spiritual father Bartholomew, does not respect the canonical decisions of other bishops and jurisdictions at all, and thus collects under his omophor the canonically properly dissolved clerics. Here we will list only a few cases:
- July 2023, Arch. Elpidofor was ordained to the rank of Bishop Theofan Kodža, a fugitive troubled cleric of the Albanian Orthodox Church who was threatened with dissolution, who read the symbol of faith with the addition of a Filioque in his account. The protests of the Holy Synod of the Albanian church had no effect.
In 2022, Archbishop Elpidofor formed the so-called ”Slavic Vicariate” of the Patriarchate of Constantinople for America and in it he gathered all the canonically disembodied clerics of the Russian Church Abroad. The question arises-Why is there a "Slavic Vicariate" at all when there are already Russian, Serbian and Bulgarian Orthodox churches in the United States? To what end?
The most controversial among these clerics is Alexander Belya, who, after being caught and falsified his signature in the desire to become a bishop, was dissolved by the Egcrkva. His brother was also accused of trafficking ”white slaves,” most of whom were women. Of course, all this arch. Elpidofor did not have any problem, so after the admission of these clerics under his jurisdiction he announced hirotonija Belje in the rank of Bishop for the ”Slavic Vicariate”. However, this announcement of Elpidophor met with strong opposition from other canonical bishops in the United States, who in their letter threatened that if this happened, they would withdraw from the Joint Working body - the Council of American Orthodox Canonical bishops. The letter was signed by the bishops of the Serbian, Romanian, Bulgarian and Antiochian Orthodox churches. Arch. In his response, elpidophorus rejected the threats of the other bishops, but he still did not ordain Bela to the rank of Bishop, nor did he give up his intention.
Conclusion
You can see from the Arch. Elpidophor bases his views on the non-Orthodox and neo-papist doctrine of the primacy of the patriarch of Constantinople over other local churches. In this false teaching and misinterpretation 28. the canon of the Fourth Ecumenical Council, the patriarch of Constantinople is ”the first without equals” (Primus sine paribus) and not as it was until 100-150 years ago ”the first among equals” (Primus inter pares) his jurisdiction supposedly extends to the territories of the other autocephalous churches, and he has the exclusive right to grant and take away autocephaly, and therefore he – Patriarch J of Constantinople is not subject to any court and everything is allowed to him. From all of the above, it is clear that arch. Elpidophorus is not an Orthodox bishop and leads his entire Archdiocese to spiritual destruction, while from within he destroys the already shattered unity of the Orthodox Church. The question arises for all local Orthodox Churches-how long will this situation be tolerated? How long will they serve together with the clerics of this quasi-church anti-Orthodox, political and secularist grouping ? When will a local or Pan-Orthodox Council be convened to judge heretics and restore the canonical order and unity of Orthodox Christians? And the final question is: Are there any red lines for us Orthodox?
THANK YOU
Source: Center for Geostrategic Studies
29. August 2024.
