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Russian secret service labels Ecumenical Patriarch ‘Constantinople Antichrist’ in scathing attack [ekathimerini.com]:

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has launched a scathing attack on Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, calling him the “Constantinople Antichrist” and accusing him of attempting to “sow discord” in the Russian Orthodox world with support from the British secret service.

In a statement published on its website, the SVR claimed Bartholomew “dismembered Orthodox Ukraine” and is now targeting the Baltic states to supplant Russian Orthodox structures with churches “completely under the control of the Phanar,” referring to the patriarchate’s seat in Istanbul.

“Relying on ideological allies in the form of local nationalists and neo-Nazis, he is attempting to tear the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian Orthodox Churches away from the Moscow Patriarchate by luring their priests and flocks into the puppet religious structures artificially created by Constantinople,” the statement said.

The statement also alleged he plans to grant autocephaly to the unrecognized Montenegrin Orthodox Church to undermine the Serbian Orthodox Church.

“Church circles note that Bartholomew is literally tearing apart the living body of the Church,” the statement concluded, likening him to “false prophets … who come in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.”

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