How Much Of Our Money Goes To the Patriarchate? How Much Ends Up In Turkish Hands?

 Σχόλιο Στρατηγού Φράγκου Φ. :Μικροψυχίες…

Εάν είχε ζήσει στην Τουρκία όχι δεν θα σχολίαζε, αλλά θα φρόντιζε να ενισχύσει το σκλαβωμένο από το 1453 μ. Χ.  Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο Κωνσταντινουπόλεως και Νέας Ρώμης..
Υπηρέτησα δυο φορές από τρια ετη στην Άγκυρα Στρατιωτικός Ακόλουθος 1991 - 4. & Ακόλουθος Άμυνας 1998 - 2001, άρα επιτρέπεται να έχω άποψη, διότι γνωρίζω το έργο του Πατριαρχείου…
Όταν ζήσεις σκλάβος…

«Αιδώς Αργείοι»..

Από την ασφάλεια της Νέας Υόρκης μπορείς να κομπορημονείς…

Another regular reader reminded me of one more source of income for the Patriarchate, the old-calendar group of churches, like St. Irene Chrysovalntou in Astoria.  They have five or six parishes in the US.  These are really “devoted” to the Patriarchate and have even sold the golden attributions the faithful put on icons to send the money to the Phanariots!! We will come back another day with more on this story…

By Nick Stamatakis

I will introduce this painful subject with the story I heard recently from a faithful in one of the “Eparchies” of the “Ecumenical Throne” in the English-speaking world, i.e. US, UK, Australia, Canada…  A religious group in a parish collected an amount of money – something around $60,000 – for the purpose of supporting an Orthodox mission on the other side of the globe in a very remote and needy area.  The Archbishop of this “Eparchy”, when he heard of the fundraising, advised (read: forced) the group to sent the money through the Istanbul Patriarchate.  Can any of you guess how much of this amount of $60,000 finally reached its destination of helping the Orthodox mission in this remote part of the Globe? Please try again – your first guess was probably wrong… The correct answer is $6,000!!  Yes, my friends, the “Patriarchal Swamp” in Istanbul kept for themselves 90% of the money and allowed the mission a mere pittance…

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