“Patriarch Daniil should already be thinking about retiring. He is failing as a patriarch. <…> Someone has to be the first to say that the emperor has no clothes.

“It is time for the Lord to act!

“Atanas Trendafilov, playing at being 'patriarch.'

“the diocese stated that it would use all legally available means to appeal the detention of the hierarch, the seizure of the passport, and the attempt to mobilize the clergyman, and asked the faithful to pray for Father Anatoliy

“the Ecumenical Patriarch accused Local Churches of ingratitude and also made a thinly veiled reference to the Serbian primate, who has still not made a “peace visit” to the Phanar.

Patriarch Bartholomew ›

Ecumenical Patriarch

Reported

“the Patriarch had no authority over him and that his election had been “a particularly vile crime against the Orthodox faith and the Bulgarian people.”

“The Patriarch’s spiritual DNA is the spiritual DNA of spiritual murderers.