Ecumenical Patriarch meets with others in Georgia

[Hieromonk Enoch]

http://nftu.net/phanar-leaders-meet-georgia/

The Ecumenical Patriarch is meeting with other leaders, notably, the Georgian and Serbian patriarchs, and the defacto leader of the Bulgarian Patriarch in Georgia, under the auspices of Patriarch Illia's 80th birthday. Though, when you get this many people together, from these different backgrounds, it seems certain that more than just 'happy birthday' is all that's going on.
Meetings with the Georgian president and prime minister also happened. Remember, all in the background of the Georgia-Russia war.

[Revnitel]

I guess being post papal, I don't have a reaction to a wannabe pope. The man is pitiful and teaches heresy. Personally, I would be ashamed if I were a Georgian.

[StephenS]

It is very regrettable and more. I suspect a sense of the country being threatened by their much larger neighbour makes them susceptible to offers of 'support' from elsewhere.

[Revnitel]

What support is that? He can't even open a seminary. He has to speak Turkish in public. But if the Georgians want that, they deserve it.

[StephenS]

I am no fan of his and those who follow him either. Guess Putin might ask how many battalions could he put in the field? Probably half a battalion if the Holy Monastery of Esphigmenou was the target, sadly. Otherwise none.

[Hieromonk Enoch]

Steven,

Ultimately, I'm not sure what physical support if any the Phanar could really give.

In Christ,

Fr. Enoch

[StephenS]

Fr Enoch, bless

I wonder whether this is a search for 'friends' by some feeling vulnerable, I.e. politics, or simply the getting together of those whose orthodoxy lies more firmly in their appearance than anything else. Either way it is very regrettable.

Stephen