Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople is expected to visit the U.S. in July, reports the National Herald.
Pat. Bartholomew will be visiting at the invitation of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to speak at a meeting on the environment. He last visited America in 2009.
Recall that the U.S. State Department has openly supported the Patriarchate of Constantinople in its non-canonical interference in Church affairs in Ukraine. The Department has released several messages in support of the creation of the schismatic church, some from Pompeo personally. The Secretary spoke with “Metropolitan” Epiphany Dumenko on the phone following the mid-December “unification council.”
Pat. Bartholomew will also make a pastoral visit to the Greek Archdiocese of America. As is known, the Patriarch is pushing His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios out of his position as the head of the Archdiocese and has given him until Pascha to tender his resignation. The Patriarch’s reported visit will take place just three months after this deadline.
(Source: The National Herald)