{"id":105110,"date":"2022-09-22T21:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T20:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/vesti\/%category_vesti%\/litvanski-politichari-baraat-ekliton-od-vselenskiot-patrijarh\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T16:33:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:33:04","slug":"patriarch-bartholomew-receives-lithuanian-politicians-seeking-to-subject-church-to-constantinople","status":"publish","type":"vesti","link":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/reports\/world-news\/patriarch-bartholomew-receives-lithuanian-politicians-seeking-to-subject-church-to-constantinople\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Bartholomew receives Lithuanian politicians seeking to subject Church to Constantinople"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople received a group of Lithuanian politicians at the Phanar in Istanbul yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The visit comes as defrocked clerics and government officials are working to force the Church in Lithuania out of the Moscow Patriarchate and into the jurisdiction of Pat. Bartholomew.<\/p>\n<p>The visiting group included Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantas Adom\u0117nas, Lithuanian ambassador in Ankara Ri\u010dardas Degutis, and adviser to the Prime Minister Galina Vascenkaite, reports Romfea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had the opportunity to discuss the ministry of the Mother Church, as well as other matters of mutual interest,\u201d the Greek outlet relates.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida \u0160imonyt\u0117 told Pat. Bartholomew in May that the government is prepared to help transfer the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Having learned of the state\u2019s intentions, His Eminence Metropolitan Innokenty of Lithuania sent a letter to the PM, expressing his alarm.<\/p>\n<p>In it, he notes that \u201cIt\u2019s known that the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Mantas Adom\u0117nas,\u201d who met with Pat. Bartholomew yesterday, \u201cis also working in this direction and recently held a meeting with the fake Archbishop of the OCU, Evstraty (Zorya),\u201d who also spoke to the Lithuanian press about the Church switching to Constantinople.<\/p>\n<p>The Lithuanian Church has sadly had to defrock several clerics in recent months for their ongoing schismatic activity and attempts to arbitrarily change jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it\u2019s well known that the Lithuanian faithful stand in favor of maintaining Church unity and against state interference in the life of the Church.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/litvanski-politichari-baraat-ekliton-od-vselenskiot-patrijarh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"511\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105032 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/litvanski-politichari-baraat-ekliton-od-vselenskiot-patrijarh.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/litvanski-politichari-baraat-ekliton-od-vselenskiot-patrijarh-768x383.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":105034,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1573,2560],"category_vesti":[1133],"tags_vesti":[],"lokacii":[],"class_list":["post-105110","vesti","type-vesti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ecumenical-patriarchate","tag-ecumenical-patriarch","category_vesti-world-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vesti\/105110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vesti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vesti"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vesti\/105110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105110"},{"taxonomy":"category_vesti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_vesti?post=105110"},{"taxonomy":"tags_vesti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags_vesti?post=105110"},{"taxonomy":"lokacii","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lokacii?post=105110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}