On December 12, 1452 AD, Hagia Sophias Priests In Constantinople Began To Commemorate The Latin Pope

On December 12, 1452 AD, Hagia Sophia’s priests in Constantinople began to commemorate the Latin Pope Nicholas V (1447-1455) by the orders of Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos. The Emperor hoped to receive military aid from the Pope and brought the Orthodox Church to compromise.

Six months after the Orthodox Church’s submission to the Latin Pope, The Queen of Cities, Constantinople, fell into the hands of the antichrist Hagarenes on the 29th of May, 1453.

After a 53-day seige by Sultan Mehmet II, the Byzantine Empire, which was founded in the fourth century and endured eleven hundred years, fell into the hands of the Ottoman Empire with the destruction of Constantinople, preceded by the union of the Orthodox East and the Latin West. The Greeks attributed the fall of their glorious empire to their sins and apostasy.

If the Orthodox Church unites with the Latin Catholic Church again, return to this post and remember the subsequent Fall of Constantinople. We might just see the Third World War break through the horizon together, as one United Church, Orthodox and Catholic.

There is one Flock and one Shepherd, that is the Orthodox Church and the Holy Mysteries in Her. It is One because it shares the same confession of the faith, not a false union that sweeps its theological differences under a rug in order to gain worldly power. To be clear, I love Roman Catholics, I love Protestants, I love the Pope himself even, but the Pope is not God. If there were a union between Orthodox and Catholics and other denominations in our time, unless it entails an acceptance of Orthodox dogma and renunciation of heresies by the heterodox Churches, it is only a false union; the entrance of wolves within the sheepfold by the fault of the Church’s hired servants.

I understand why people want unification; the Christians have many enemies, but the Kingdom of Heaven is the pearl of great price, for which the merchant sold everything that he had in order to obtain it.

To be clear, we Orthodox don’t believe that just because you’re not Orthodox means that you are going to Hell. We just believe that there is a spiritual battle, and to be Orthodox is to have the full armor of Christ, and its entire armory at your disposal.