{"id":322,"date":"2017-10-29T01:02:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T22:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2020-09-23T10:01:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T07:01:01","slug":"on-the-future-of-the-ecumenical-patriarchate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/322\/on-the-future-of-the-ecumenical-patriarchate\/","title":{"rendered":"On the future of the Ecumenical Patriarchate"},"content":{"rendered":"

As it was said in a post about Koran<\/a>, without the Patriarchate Constantinople today would be just an overcrowded Turkish\u00a0habitation, a city essentially similar to any other Turkish city,\u00a0with nothing comparable even a little with the significance of Byzantium<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Patriarchate faces three options: first, Turkey enters the European Union and freedom reigns everywhere; second, Turkey decides or is obliged\u00a0to respect\u00a0Orthodoxy, even without entering the EU; third, the Patriarchate moves to a friendly country,\u00a0most\u00a0probably\u00a0Greece.<\/p>\n

The second option can not be excluded, but the Orthodox community in Constantinople has already suffered much, and is now going to\u00a0disappear entirely, i.e., the Patriarchate has no time to experiment with Turkey’s intentions or wait for the interest of the international community, already proven weak.<\/p>\n

Between the\u00a0remaining two options, Patriarch Vartholomeos chose the first, thinking, I suppose, that away from Constantinople the Patriarchate would suffer a loss of its esteem and Orthodoxy would be in danger of losing to some degree\u00a0its memory and identity.<\/p>\n

The important question then is: Orthodoxy and Christianity in general will lose less\u00a0in a multicultural European Union than in a\u00a0European Union\u00a0where the Patriarchate is at Thessaloniki? Of course the European nations can\u00a0choose the multicultural kind of ‘life’ anyway, but now we focus on the Patriarchate’s decision to support this kind of ‘life’.<\/p>\n

I wonder: if Europe’s memory weakens enough to create a faceless mixture instead of a European Union,\u00a0how\u00a0will\u00a0the Patriarchate be able to strengthen the Christian memory just by being in Constantinople? There is\u00a0some paradox here,\u00a0to\u00a0support Christianity by going against it,\u00a0to want\u00a0the\u00a0strengthening of\u00a0an\u00a0identity\u00a0that we advise to be lost!<\/p>\n

The Ecumenical centre of Orthodoxy is where truth is, not in a city,\u00a0and as regards political power, the Orthodox centre is where the most powerful Orthodox\u00a0people is, i.e. in Russia.<\/p>\n

If Russia comes to the point of forgetting her Byzantine origins, what Patriarchate in what Constantinople will be able to remind her of those origins? If Russia does not come to that point, then the Ecumenical Patriarchate, wherever its\u00a0Seat might be,\u00a0can\u00a0become our spiritual<\/em> centre to the degree<\/strong> that it participates in truth. If the Patriarchate cannot become our political<\/em> centre\u00a0in any <\/strong>case, then why all this persistence in staying at Constantinople?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As it was said in a post about Koran, without the Patriarchate Constantinople today would be just an overcrowded Turkish\u00a0habitation, a city essentially similar to any other Turkish city,\u00a0with nothing comparable even a little with the significance of Byzantium.   The Patriarchate faces three options: first, Turkey enters the European Union and freedom reigns everywhere; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_disable_autopaging":false},"categories":[9,14,10],"tags":[118,166,89,34,197,167,53,152,91],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-islam","category-orthodox-christianity","tag-byzantium","tag-christianity","tag-constantinople","tag-culture","tag-ecumenical-patriarchate","tag-european-union","tag-orthodoxy","tag-russia","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}