Speech by Diogenis Valavanidis, director of the Center for the protection of Christian identity and chairman of the Religious Affairs Committee of the Center for geostrategic studies from the International Conference: blockade of aggression against the church, defense of orthodoxy, in Sofia 26. August 2024.
Photo By Diogenis Valavanidis
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Eastern papism destroys the unity of the Orthodox Church
Dear ladies and gentlemen, dear friends,
I take the opportunity to express my pleasure in participating in the conference blockade of aggression against the church: defense of Orthodoxy, and in this regard I would like to emphasize that today, more than ever before, it is necessary to engage in stopping the aggression aimed at the destruction of the Orthodox Church. This is what I say in my latest book. "DEFENDING THE UNITY OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH" and "Eastern PAPISM destroys the unity of the Orthodox Church" which were published in order to fight for the survival of Orthodox Christianity.
In today's changing social and political circumstances on the geopolitical plane, when an open war is waged against our Creator Lord Jesus Christ, when the patriarch of Constantinople does everything to impose himself as eastern pope, at the moment when Pope Francis 13. May 2023. during his visit to France, he publicly receives Satanic symbols by the president of Ukraine Zelensky, i.e. the icon of the mother of God with the darkened image of Jesus Christ, at a time when humanity is on the border of decline and humanity in moral and spiritual free fall, no one has the right to inertness and tranquility, to peace and rest, to neutrality and disinterest, because today the essence of our being in this world is defended. Every silence and silence in the icy darkness of self-sufficiency will be considered a sin.
Photos: Pope receives as a gift from Vladimir Zelensky an icon of the mother of God with a darkened image of Jesus Christ
I would like to emphasize that today it is not necessary to be a great connoisseur of ecclesiological and geopolitical circumstances, in order to conclude that the Orthodox Church has found itself in a vortex of numerous political combinations and geopolitical redistributions. I would like to emphasize in particular that the heresies of the modern age, such as ecumenism, modernism, liberalism, and the new false teaching of EASTERN PAPISM, the greatest dangers that today pose a threat to the survival of the Orthodox Church. In other words, they represent the greatest dangers for the preservation of the original values of the Orthodox Church of the first millennium, and in this regard I would like to draw attention to "establishment of the chair of the 'eastern Pope' it was only a transitional form towards unity with the Roman Catholic Church. Namely, the Vatican is in a hurry to celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council (2025). the union between Rome and Constantinople, for which the phanariot magnates had already declared themselves. As an example, let us say that the head of the Archdiocese of Phanara in the USA, Archbishop Elpidoforos (Lambriniadis) gave a lecture on the topic: 'the future of Orthodox-Roman Catholic relations in the United States', at Fordham University in New York, where he decidly declared for union with Rome." In this context, Pope Francis and his like-minded Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople are planning for the next 2025. the year is 1700.anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council. Their intention was to do so precisely in Nicaea, Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey, where the First Ecumenical Council was held (325).
In essence, papism is the main false teaching of the papists. a Roman Catholic, whose basic message is that the Roman Pope is not only the first among equals in honor, as always believed by the whole Church of Christ, but also the first in power, i.e. without equals. In other words,"he is above all the other patriarchs and the only substitute of Jesus Christ on Earth"? This false demonic teaching, which is a consequence of the pride of the Roman popes, originated even before the 11th century. century and the Great Schism of the Eastern and Western churches, i.e. the fall of the Roman Church from The One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church – the Orthodox Church.
In addition, in the time of St. Gregory The Great (+604), when there was no mention of the introduction into Christian theological thought of such dogmas and innovations as the so-called. papal infallibility, St. Gregory The Great, in Book VII, Epistle 33, wrote:
„…..whoever calls himself, or wants to call himself, the Universal Shepherd, is in his pride the forerunner of the Antichrist, because he proudly places himself above others.“
If we analyze today's situation in the Orthodox Church, we come to the conclusion that the main cause of the huge earthquakes in the entire Orthodox Church lies in the fact that the church is in a state of emergency. the non-canonical decision of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople I to invade in a barbaric way the field of jurisdiction, the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Orthodox Christians watched with disbelief and horror as the Primate of the ancient Patriarchate of Constantinople decided to annex a part of the other local church to his canonical territory, while declaring those who were considered schismatics by all local Orthodox churches to be part of the canonical Church.
These are the actions of Constantinople. heretics, ignited a spark of conflict in Ukraine, and unleashed a wave of State terror against members of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UPC), in the form of arrest and mistreatment of hierarchs, as well as persecution of monks from their monasteries.
Also, we are witnessing the unprecedented political pressure of the Anglo-Saxon west in the direction of fragmentation of the Orthodox Church, which was encouraged by the uncanonical actions of the highest church authorities of the ancient Church of Constantinople. In other words, this assures us that the "Apocalypse of modern man"has already begun in the West.
This is also the case with the study paper presented on the 13th. June 2024. in Rome, by Cardinal Kurt Koch, responsible for ecumenical Affairs, and Maria Grech, secretary general of the World Synod of bishops. The document "suggests" to Christian churches that in the future they should accept the pope as "honorary primate". Be careful what they come up with-the imaginary dignity of the "pope as honorary primate", only to obscure the real reason, which is the centuries-old aspiration to achieve papal primacy.
It is more than obvious why today the Roman Catholic Church is using the famous Latin cunning and promoting the idea, as they say – "a new understanding and a different exercise of papal primacy, which should contribute to the restoration of Christian unity». In order to deceive the local Orthodox churches and obscure the true reason, it is even proposed to change the reading of the doctrine of the first Vatican Council, which was in 1870. he proclaimed the infallibility of the Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in dogmatic matters, and thus of him as supreme legislator and judge of the entire Christian Church.
Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, it is more than clear that by signing the Union in 2025. the Roman Catholic Church wants to achieve papal primacy at all costs, which it has strived for centuries.
Despite the aspirations of the patriarch of Constantinople to impose himself as an Orthodox Pope, an example that tells us a lot, is the icy silence that accompanied the barbaric seizure of the Orthodox shrine, the Church of St. Sophia in Constantinople by official Ankara, which completely discredits the attempt of such an intention. In other words, The Silence of the patriarch of Constantinople fully illuminates the unfounded aspiration to rule the Orthodox world. In a concrete example, he showed that he was incapable of defending the Church of St. Sophia, which is only a few hundred meters from his chambers, and how could it represent the whole orthodoxy?
Photo: Pope and Bartholomew in a hug
I personally, as the president of the "Center for the protection of Christian identity" from Belgrade, sent an open letter to the president of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan 13. July 2020. in December 2016, with a request to reconsider the decision that converted the Orthodox Church of St. Sophia into an Islamic place of worship, erected by Emperor Justinian from 532-537. years. The letter was delivered at the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Belgrade.
Also, in a separate letter, Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople was asked to invest his authority and do everything to return to us the Church of St. Sophia, in which generations of our ancestors prayed with the peace of God to the only Lord.
The response of the patriarch of Constantinople to this letter never came!
Today, all arrows and fires are directed towards the Russian Orthodox Church, which is the only one that remains immune to the numerous depravity of today's world, especially to the appearance of the greatest evil, the appearance of Satanism. Although it seems that the Russian Orthodox Church is left alone, at this point it is most important that it is steadfast in the teachings of the Holy Apostles, the Holy Fathers and the Ecumenical Councils. Therefore, we believe that the RPC is the only one that can preserve the Orthodox Church from the demonic forces and temptations to which it is exposed.
Unfortunately, the fact is that today's Christians are not fighters, but neutral and disinterested observers. If we see that the Church is silent in order not to oppose the authorities of the state, if the Metropolitans are silent, if the monks are silent, then who will speak dear brothers, sisters and dear friends? Who will defend the Lord God and His Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, that is, the only Orthodox one? If we do not resist, our ancestors will rise from the grave. They have suffered so much for our faith, for our fatherland, and what do we do for it?
Our duty is to defend our faith, our church, and our Lord Jesus Christ. For we were born Orthodox, and as orthodox we will end our lives. And we will never be, neither papists, ecumenists, modernists or liberals, nor supporters of any Satanic, pathological and deviant phenomena in the present day.
I will end, with words that I have written in several of my books, which have become part of my being, my soul, and my Amanet. They read:
If I were at the end of my life, before my last exhalation,
there is only one atom of strength and power left.,
and I would Him, Father and Lord, Jesus Christ the son of God,
for the defense of your Holy Faith and the defense of your Holy Church.
Almighty God and Lord life Moga,
who was tortured on the Cross for my sins,
please, always be with me!
Thank you for your attention!
Source: Center for Geostrategic Studies
7. September 2024.
