The Holy Fathers on Heresy & Ecumenism

The Holy Fathers on Heresy & Ecumenism

+++There is another video which was made last year called “Holy Orthodoxy vs. Ecumenism.” (   • Holy Orthodoxy and Ecumenism  )
This present video is to supplement it:

Unfortunately, we have had throughout Church history, various heresies (such as Arianism, Monophysitism, Appollinarianism, Tritheism, Nestorianism, Pelagianism, Iconoclasm, Modernism etc.) and with that various Patriarchs, Archbishops, Metropolitans, Bishops, Priests, Deacons, Monks and lay people (including Theologians) who have betrayed the Orthodox Christian Faith. In our present times, there is no exception…

Patriarch Bartholomew has taken a Papal-like “Primacy” which is foreign to the Orthodox Church.

He has decided on his own that; ‘all religions are pathways of salvation.’ That ‘Muslims can go to heaven without believing in Christ.’ He accepted the sacraments of Papists. He has granted autocephalous status to a Schismatic (and non-ordinated) Metropolitan (Epiphanios) in Ukraine and has ignored the existing (Orthodox Metropolitan) Onuphry.
He also recently officiated during the service of the Great Vespers of the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, at a Roman Catholic church of the Virgin Mary in Trabzon (Trapezounta).



Archbishop Elpidophoros has stated ‘that there are myriads of paths (outside of Orthodoxy and even Christianity) to the top of the mountain (Heaven).’


Lets see what the Canons of the Orthodox Church and the Holy Fathers have to say:

“Let any Bishop, or Presbyter, or Deacon that merely joins in prayer with heretics be suspended, but if he has permitted them to perform any service as clergymen, let him be deposed.”
(Apostolic Canon 45)

“Let any clergyman or layman who enters a synagogue of Jews, or of heretics, to pray be both deposed and excommunicated.”
(Apostolic Canon 65)

“No one shall join in prayer with heretics or schismatics.”
(Canon 33 of the Council of Laodicea)

“He that saith not ‘Anathema’ to those in heresy, let him be anathema.”
(Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council)


“I reminded you many times about the atheist heretics (non-Orthodox), and now I implore you not to compromise with them on anything, do not eat or drink with them in the name of friendship, better relations, love or peace, because he who is swayed and compromises with them renders himself foreign to the Catholic (Universal) Church.”

“Be aware not to be corrupted from love of the heretics; for this reason do not accept any false belief (dogma) in the name of love.”

“The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.”
(St. John Chrysostom)


“Keep striving until the fire of heresy is put out, before it consumes the Church.”
(St. Basil the Great)


“Do not have a single thing to do with schismatics and absolutely nothing with heretics. . . As you know I myself have avoided them due to their Christ hating and heterodox heresy.”
(St. Anthony the Great)


“All the teachers of the Church, and all the Councils, and all the Divine Scriptures advise us to flee from the heterodox and separate from their communion.”

“I am convinced that the further I depart from him (the Patriarch) and from those like him (the Latin-minded), the closer do I draw near God and all the faithful and the holy Fathers; and the more I am separated from them, by so much more am I united to the truth and the holy Fathers.”

“We have excised (removed) and cut them (the Papists) off from the common body of the Church, we have, therefore, rejected them as heretics, and for this reason we are separated from them; they are, therefore, heretics, and we have cut them off as heretics.”

“The Latins are not only schismatics but heretics… we did not separate from them for any other reason other than the fact that they are heretics. This is precisely why we must not unite with them unless they dismiss the addition from the Creed ‘filioque’ and confess the Creed as we do.”

“It is impossible to recall peace without dissolving the cause of the schism— the primacy of the Pope exalting himself equal to God.”

“All the teachers of the Church, all the Councils, and all the Divine Scriptures, exhort us to flee those who uphold other doctrines and to separate from communion with them.”
(St. Mark of Ephesus)

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