UOC KP Spokesman: Bartholomew is Patriarch of the European Union and USA

Spokesman of the Kiev Patriarchate Eustraty Zoria

The interests of the Patriarchate of Constantinople coincide with the interests of European and North Atlantic institutions. This was said in an interview with RISU by spokesman of the UOC-KP Eustraty Zoria.

According to Eustraty Zoria, the solution of religious issues in Europe largely depends on the solution of political problems. As an example, the UOC-KP spokesman cited the situation in the Balkans, where Greece is now seeking to resolve the dispute with Macedonia.

"Russia is trying in every possible way to torpedo the process of achieving understanding between Greece and Macedonia, while the Greek government is interested in reaching this understanding," Eustraty Zoria said. “The Constantinople Patriarchate has a similar interest as long as the European and North Atlantic institutions have this interest too. These institutions represent the countries that are fundamental to the Patriarch of Constantinople – being his flock hubs – Europe and America. Therefore, he is not the Patriarch of Istanbul, as they like to call him in Moscow. He is the Patriarch of the European Union and the United States of America."

According to the spokesman of the Kiev Patriarchate, the European Union and the United States are currently playing the same role that Byzantium used to play: they are the center of the world civilization, around which everything is rotating one way or another.

Earlier, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko claimed the issue of autocephaly in Ukraine is one of the pillars of "the entire world geopolitics".

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