Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service called the Ecumenical Patriarch "the devil incarnate."

Comment from the author of this blog ''Orthodoxy for all'' Marcus Orthodoxus:

These satanists have gone too far, they call Patriarch Bartholomew an antichrist and a devil incarnate! While they themselves are satanists who kill their fellow brothers and sisters in Ukraine! And their ''church'' (Moscow Patriarchate) is a KGB organization what was established by Stalin in 1943 to serve the communist regime, nothing changed today, this fake church blesses the genocide of Ukrainians, calls this war ''Holy war'', swapped Christianity for the satanic pagan nationalist cult of ''Holy Rus'' the Third Rome! How dare they blaspheme like this! Plus they created an uncanonical ''Exharchate of Africa'' in 2021 on the territory of the canonical Alexandrian Patriarchate! These satanists better shut up!

Enough is enough! They must be stopped! They need to be condemned and put in prison!!! And their ''church'' be anathematized as a totalitarian sect that has nothing to do with Orthodox Christianity!

Here is their blasphemy:

The Press Bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation reports that, according to information received by the SVR, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who dismembered Orthodox Ukraine, continues his schismatic activities within the Orthodox Church. Now he has set his dark eye on the Baltic states. This "devil incarnate" is obsessed with ousting Russian Orthodoxy from the Baltic states, establishing in its place church structures completely under the control of the Phanar.

In this, he is fully supported by the British intelligence services, which actively fuel Russophobic sentiments in European countries. At their instigation, Bartholomew, mired in the mortal sin of schism, has found common ground with the authorities of the Baltic states in an effort to sow discord in the Russian Orthodox world. 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 "Constantinople Antichrist"'s aggressive ambitions are not limited to Ukraine and the Baltics; his treachery is gradually spreading to the lands of Eastern Europe. In order to strike a blow against the "particularly obstinate" Serbian Orthodox Church, he intends to grant autocephaly to the unrecognized "Montenegrin Orthodox Church."

Church circles note that Bartholomew is literally tearing apart the living Body of the Church. In this way, he resembles the false prophets mentioned in the Sermon on the Mount: "They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. ... By their fruits you will know them." 

Press Bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia

12.01.2026

Source: http://www.svr.gov.ru/smi/2026/01/konstantinopolskiy-patriarkh-varfolomey-antikhrist-v-ryase.htm

ROCOR stance on the Moscow Patriarchate before the 2007 apostatic union

"Orthodox Rus'" and the Moscow Patriarchate 

Until it fell into the hands of the Sergianist-Ecumenists, the church-public organ "Orthodox Rus" was always a spiritual beacon pointing the way to Christ's Truth. Such foreign pillars as Archbishop Vitaly (Maksimenko), Archbishop Averky (Taushev), and Archimandrite Konstantin (Zaitsev) served on the magazine's editorial board. Excerpts from "Orthodox Rus" illustrate the traditional relationship of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia to the Moscow Patriarchate.

How can a layperson be saved? (St Paisius Velichkovsky)

I advise you to read more diligently the Divine Scriptures and the teachings of our holy and God-bearing Fathers, who have been given by the grace of the Holy Spirit to understand the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, that is, the true meaning of Holy Scripture.

On Conscience (St Ignatius Brianchaninov)

 

Conscience is a feeling of the human spirit, subtle, bright, distinguishing good from evil.

This feeling distinguishes good from evil more clearly than the mind.

It is more difficult to deceive the conscience than the mind.

And the conscience struggles for a long time with a deceived mind, supported by a sin-loving will.

Conscience is a natural law.

Conscience guided man before the written Law. Fallen humanity gradually acquired an incorrect way of thinking about God, about good and evil: the false mind communicated its wrongness to conscience. The Written Law has become a necessity for guidance to true knowledge of God and to God-pleasing activities.

Prayer of one persecuted by men (St Ignatius Brianchaninov)

I thank You, my Lord and God, for all that has happened to me! I thank You for all the sorrows and temptations that You sent me for the cleansing of those defiled by sins, for the healing of those wounded by sins, my soul and body!

Have mercy and save those instruments that You used to heal me: those people who insulted me. Bless them in this and the next age! Impute to them as virtues what they did for me! Appoint for them abundant rewards from Your eternal treasures!

On the cross (St Innocent of Alaska)

“The word “cross” means suffering, pain and adversity. “To take up one’s cross” means to accept without complaint everything that can happen in life, unpleasant, painful, sad, difficult and oppressive. In other words, to bear every laughter, contempt, tiredness, pain and annoyance of others; to bear every poverty, misfortune, illness, without considering oneself offended. And if, when you carry your cross according to the will of God, a proud thought suggests to you that you are not weak like others, but that you are firm, pious and better, eradicate such thoughts as much as possible because they ruin all your virtues.“

"YOU WILL BE A CHRISTIAN." The life of the schemamonk Nicholas the Confessor of Optina Monastery, as told from his words by the Venerable Elder Barsanuphius of Optina.

From the editors: Nikolai the Turk (Schemamonk Nikolai (Abrulah) (†18/31 August 1893) In the worldly realm, Nikolai Abrulah, a Kazan townsman. From the testimony he presented to the Kherson Spiritual Consistory, it is clear that he was of the Mohammedan faith, his name was Yusuf-Abdul-Oglu; a former Turkish subject, originally from Asia Minor, served in the Turkish army as an officer. When he felt the desire to change his Mohammedan faith to the Orthodox Christian and even began to openly declare this to his Turkish relatives, they hated him so much that for two days he could not get food for himself anywhere, no one gave him anything as an infidel. Then the Turks tortured him terribly, cutting out whole pieces of his body. But Yusuf remained adamant in his desire to accept the Christian faith. With God's help, he managed to avoid further suffering at the hands of his tormentors and retreat to hospitable Russia. In the city of Odessa, in the quarantine church, he was baptized in October 1874 and given the name Nicholas. His godparents were the Odessa mayor and privy councilor Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin and the first-guild merchant Natalia Ivanovna Gladkova. Then, for some unknown reason, he arrived in Kazan and there joined the bourgeoisie. On July 18, 1891, when he turned 63, he entered the Optina Skete as a brother. After receiving Holy Baptism for his fierce suffering and firm confession of the truth of the Orthodox Christian faith, the Lord granted him spiritual consolations. Like Saint Andrew, the Fool for Christ, he was at one point, while still alive, caught up into paradise, where he enjoyed the contemplation of the indescribable beauty of heaven. In the skete, Nicholas He was distinguished by his meekness, humility, and brotherly love. He occupied a cell next to that of a monk, later Hierodeacon Martyrius. During the winter, the neighboring monks at the skete usually took turns stoking their shared stove and carrying firewood for the purpose. But Nikolai often performed this task alone. Father Martyrius once asked him why he did this. Nikolai only replied, "I love you." Nikolai the Turk did not live long at the skete, only two years. Shortly before his death, he was tonsured a monk in his cell and, having received all the Christian sacraments, died peacefully 120 years ago—August 18/31, 1893, at the age of 65.

In Thy Light Shall We See Light: A Defense of the Theology of Father John Romanides

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On the Last Judgement (St John of Shanghai and San Francisco)

The day of the Last Judgement! That day no one knows --only God the Father knows -- but its signs are given in the Gospel and in the Apocalypse of the holy Apostle John the Theologian. Revelation speaks of the events at the end of the world and of the Last Judgement primarily in images and in a veiled manner, but the Holy Fathers have explained these images, and there is an authentic Church tradition that speaks clearly concerning the signs of the approach of the end, and concerning the Last Judgement.

Christmas in a Cloak and Dagger (Alexander Soldatov)

 

Christmas in a Cloak and Dagger

ByAlexander Soldatov

 Jan 11, 2026

Almost four years have passed since the beginning of the Special Military Operation, and it would seem that Patriarch Kirill  has presented  every possible argument in support of "holy warfare" and even "canonized" the Russian Armed Forces soldiers who died on the front as martyrs. However, in his Christmas interview,  published  on January 7, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church managed to find new arguments, one of which sounded particularly ominous. The Patriarch effectively called for the repression of "traitors to the Motherland," pointing to state security as the most important value of our nation.