Written by Besnik Imeri, Vlorë, March 24, 2022. Translated by Petrit Latifi.

PART FIVE

-The Metropolitans and Archbishops of the Patriarchate of Istanbul, at the same time of the Greek Orthodox Church, generals of the “Hellenic Crusade”.

A part of the Greek Orthodox clergy, its elite, mainly the metropolitans, who have for 300 years or so, put aside the works of God, and have become crusaders of an Orthodox Crusade in the Balkans to return the “Promised Land” to the Greeks.

The history of disasters, genocide, deportation, rape, murders, burnings, ethnic cleansing of entire villages of the Albanian population of Epirus, from 1881 to 1945, for 65 consecutive years, has only one author: the clerics in the highest hierarchy of the Greek Church. The Greek Church, with a knife and a flaming torch in hand, has killed and burned the Albanians. I do not know which god will forgive the sins of these murderers masked with black veladoni.

Jean-Claude Faveirial reveals an interesting fact regarding the involvement of the high Greek clergy in the political activity of annexing the territories of other peoples in favor of Greece:

“In the spring of 1881, at the instigation of Athens, a committee was formed in Ioannina with the aim of annexing Epirus to Greece. This committee had Archbishop Sophrony as its chairman”[1]

But as we said above; the patriarchate of Constantinople and its bishops in the territories that were intended to become Greek, worked feverishly for the Hellenization of their population. At the head of this activity were the Hellenizing bishops or metropolitans. After them came the Greek consulates that had been established precisely in those territories that were intended by Greece and Byzantium to be Hellenized, and then annexed.

The metropolitans and consulates had become advanced diversionary posts, from where criminal gangs were directed in the function of Hellenization. The metropolitan was connected to the capobandi by giving them money. The consulates had become weapons depots and coffers from which the money coming from Greece was distributed.

Faverial tells us: “…In Zagori…A brigandism plan was sent to the Greek patriarch (of Constantinople), and from the patriarch this plan was sent to the archbishops who depended on him. In accordance with these instructions, Cyril, the metropolitan of Grebene, maintained contact with the leader of the brigands, Stavros, through his secretary Vasilaki and the children of Pope Christos of Tista.

Hilarion, the metropolitan of Kostur, in case of need, hid the bandits in the metropolis… Based on a regulation sent from Athens, each band had to have a bishop in its service, and vice versa, each bishop had to have his own band… Matthew, the metropolitan of Monastery, transferred 600 liras to the Vali of Monastery, Kemal, every year… finally, through the Greek consulate of Thessaloniki, Greek weapons were brought to Kostur… Haxhi Petro, in 1878 invaded Thessaly with the bands sent from Athens, proposed to the bishop of Kalabaka to come and bless his flags…”[2]

Now, are these accusations made against the Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Greek Patriarchate and their metropolitans true? There is a great and irrefutable witness that testifies and confirms these macabre plans drawn up by the patriarchates, which have never been clerical, religious institutions, but spy centers, diversionary centers to the detriment of the integrity and sovereignty and national interests of the peoples of Greece’s neighboring countries.

Who is this witness? The authentic witnesses are the new political borders of Greece, ten, twenty or thirty years after this activity. Thessaloniki with its surroundings and all of Philip II’s Macedonia, Kalabaka and all of Thessaly, Ioannina, Zagoria, Pindus and all of Chameria, Kosturia and Follorina in 1913 had become Greek land. Here is the witness of this criminal activity of the patriarchate of Constantinople, that of Athens and their metropolitans to the detriment of the Albanian, Vlach and Bulgarian peoples of the Balkans, who conquered them, killed them, burned them, took away their language, culture, traditions, customs and turned them into slaves of Greek Orthodoxy formatted into a political state.

Look today in Albania Trung where Greece has established consulates: in Korça and Gjirokastër, precisely in the territories that are claimed as Northern Epirus. Look where it has opened Greek schools: in Korça and Himara. Look where there are Greek and Greek-speaking metropolitans: Korça, Berat, Gjirokastër with extensions in Lushnje, Fier, Vlorë, Himara, Tepelenë, Delvinë and Saranda.

What will be the fate of these territories? Will it be like the fate of Thessaloniki, Ioannina and all of Chameria, Kostur, Florina?!!! I can’t speak. But the Greek Orthodox Easter of the “Black Friday of Albania” is not far away!

The first, as we said, was the monk Kosmas Etoliani. After him and Sofron comes the Despot of Korça Fotis Kallidhis (killed by the patriotic squad of Mihal Gramenos during the Turkish era). After him Despot Jakov of Durrës, who wanted to prevent Ismail Qemali from declaring the Independence of Albania.

After them come the Greek metropolitans of the Autonomous Government of Northern Epirus in 1914 of Jorgo Zografos, where the ministers were the Metropolitan of Drinopoulis, Vasilios Papachristos; the Metropolitan of Kostur transferred to Korça in 1914, Germanos Karavangjeli; the Metropolitan of Konica, Spiridhon Vllehu. This government announced the annexation of Southern Albania.

A beautiful government with priests, where these despots would govern the Albanians.

“…In May 1915, the metropolitans of Korça, Gjirokastra and Konica; respectively Vasilios, Spiridhon and Germanos organized a congress of “Northern Epirus”, where they elected deputies to the Greek parliament…”[3]

The Metropolitan of Athens Spiridhon, who from the mid-1920s had provided pensions to the inhabitants of Northern Epirus living in Albania; …with the departure of the French troops from Korça, the Greek Metropolitan Jacob spoke of a “satisfactory occupation of the city by the Greeks”; Metropolitan of Gjirokastra in the 50s, Pandelejmon; The Despot of Ioannina in 1947; The Despot of Ioannina Serafinos in 1972 becomes the chairman of QEVA (Central Committee of the Struggle for Northern Epirus); Metropolitan of Konica Sebastianos, the leader of SFEVA in the 80s (Student Coordinating Committee of the Struggle for Northern Epirus); Archbishop of Athens in the 80s, Seraphim; Finally, we also remember the Metropolitan of Konica, Andreas, who decided to liberate “Northern Epirus” like the crusaders of the crusades.

These seem like little to you, with all these “janissaries” of Hellenization. But there is more.

The Greek genocide of 1913-1914, a murderous act led by the Greek Church.

Mid’hat Abdyl Frashëri, when speaking about the genocide and “holocaust” of Albanians by the bloody Greek chauvinism in 1914, does not forget to mention the murderous activity of the Greek Church:

“…Zografos and the military clique were eavesdropping on the carrying out of the armed action in Korça prepared by the Greeks under the patronage of the Greek bishop of the city, a sectarian fanatic, the Andarts were all priests brought by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, a real cholera for the Albanian Orthodox believers, whose souls they thought they would lead…Three hundred and fifty soldiers set out from Kostur (a city south of Korça, an Albanian territory annexed by Greece), commanded by officers of the active army of Her Hellenic Majesty: Mavraza, Laza, Benapoli, Asterio, Ilia Papageorgiu… Soldiers and officers, before taking the path of aggression, would to receive the blessing of the Greek bishop of Kostur…” [4]

The highest Greek clergy, the despotlers, accompanied the Greek army during the occupation of Northern Epirus, as well as the Greek andarts in the killings of the Albanian population in Southern Albania. Also, the Greek despotlers, as we have said before, were organizers of the Uprising and the declaration of the Autonomy of Northern Epirus. Here is how Kosta Papa Leusa describes this:

“…The meeting was scheduled for January 27, 2014 in Gjirokastër. The chairman of the meeting was the Despot of Konica (Spirodon Vllehu). The following cities sent delegates to this meeting: Preveza, Ioannina, Konica, Paramithia, Voshtina, Leskoviku, Kolonja, Korça, Përmet, Tepelena, Gjirokastra, Himara and Delvina… On Saturday evening, a Greek officer named Joanidhi came from Gjirokastër to Përmet. I

n the morning he set out with some Greek soldiers and gathered the boys of these villages: Malëshovë, Brezhdan, Argova and Buhal… These boys with weapons in their hands surrounded Përmet on Sunday morning and raised the flag of Autonomy, which was blue with a double-headed eagle, high in Bolëngë. At the church of the metropolitanate the people gathered with weapons…

…The little metropolitan of Përmet who was from the village of Hllomo in Gjirokastra said: Today is the day of the uprising; Today we declare the Autonomy of the regions that were judged by the ruthless Powers and given to Albania and raised the flag of Autonomy …”[5]

While the researcher Arben Llalla regarding the organization and direction of the Greek massacres in the years 1913-1914 says:

“…The Metropolitan of Vella and Konica, Spiridon Vllehu, in 1913 together with the Metropolitan of Drinopolis and Pogonia, Vasileos, were at the head of the Greek army, when this army entered Ioannina on February 21, 1913…The infamous Metropolitan of Kostur, Germanos Karavangjeli, participated directly in the massacres of the Greek army against the Albanian population in Kostur, Follorina and the surrounding villages…

….In a photograph taken on February 21, 1914, in Gjirokastër, the two Metropolitans, Spiridon Vllahu and Vasileos, are seen among the Greek soldiers and soldiers, who had committed massacres on the Albanian population…”[6]

The Greek barbarities in Albania in the years 1913-1914 under the direction of two Greek despots, are described in detail by Kosta Papa Tomori (Leusa):

“…on February 25, 1914, the Andarts entered the village of Pacomit after killing and slaughtering 75 men of the village, looting 1,500 heads of sheep and goats and 100 heads of cows, the children who had remained in the village were slaughtered… In Këlcyrë, they slaughtered anyone they found at home like cattle, they massacred women, babies and some men…

On April 2, 1914, after slaughtering 40 men of the village of Peshtan, they raped the women and girls and then killed them. 27 babies were beheaded and thrown into a well. The commander of the Andarts was Kocifaq (a Vlach)… On April 20, they entered Panarit and slaughtered 275 people…

In Hormovë, 160 men from the village were tied hand and foot and slaughtered in the village church… In Backë, 30 people, women and babies, were slaughtered… they captured 180 families in Uji i Zi (Çorovodë) and slaughtered them… among the Andarts commanders, the majority were Vlachs: Koçifaq, Farmaqi from Malindi, Qiro Vaso from Miçan, Lake Kosina, Sotir Bubuna, Fjorgakaqi, Jorgollaqi…”[7]

The crimes are horrific. No comment can be made on them. The majority of the Andarts commanders were Vlachs: from Greece and Albania. But at the head of this massacre are the Greek Vlach despots of Konica, Spiridhon Vlahu, and that of Kostur. Monstrous crimes of the Greek church. The Greek church had turned into a criminal terrorist organization and its despots, into criminal gangs. The Greek church had strayed from the path of God and had turned into a secret and savage satanic society.

Kosta Papa Leusa’s own comment on the activity and crimes of the Orthodox clergy is this: “…As little as the faith, as little as Christ, so Christ says to Judas: Take up the cross and declare rebellion inside the church! Murder, slaughter, dishonor of women, and thousands of other evils… For that cross you carry is not of Christ but of the Devil. Until, O foolish people, you will wake up from this deep sleep and escape from these ravens who have hypnotized you and you do not know what you are doing and make you tools to fulfill their diabolical desires…”[8]

The Greek genocide of 1940-1945 is a murderous act led by the Greek Church.

Now it is no longer “news” that the highest Greek clergy are the originators and implementers of the ‘Holocaust’ of the Cham population during the years of World War II. The well-known scholar Arben Llalla has, with facts, documents and photographs, unmasked the Greek hypocrisy about the “virginity” of the Greek clergy during this War, presenting them in the light of day as the murderers of the Albanian people of Cham, but also as collaborators of the Germans.

While they try to justify the genocide against the Albanian population of Chameria, by saying that all this population was collaborators with the Germans!!! There is no more disgusting hypocrisy of Greek clergy and politicians.

In a published article, but also in his own book, Arben Llalla provides compromising facts of the participation in the massacre against the Cham population of Greek metropolitans:

“…Even God himself bows before the truth.”

The Greek clergy designed the genocide against the Albanian population in Chameria 1944-1945…. The Archbishops and metropolitans of the Autocephalous Church of Greece in military clothes of Napoleon Zervas’ EDES. The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece and the Patriarchate of Istanbul, the Fanari, have always tried to prevent the existence of the Albanian language, the Albanian nation and traditional Albanian Orthodoxy.

Orthodox and Muslim Albanians have been under pressure from the Istanbul Phanar for their assimilation…The Metropolitan of Ioannina, Spiridon, in 1940, had led a meeting in Gumenica where the decision was made to deport all Albanian males of Chameria from the age of 10 and above…

…When the Greek army invaded Albania during the Italo-Greek war November 1940 – April 1941, the Metropolitan of Ioannina, Spiridon, visited the Greek military troops stationed in Gjirokastër. In April 1943, Dhorotheos Naskari was elected Metropolitan of Paramythia, Filati, Gjiromerio and Parga…

The Priest Serafeim (Visarion Tika), a soldier of Napoleon Zerva’s EDES who committed massacres on the Albanian population of Chameria, would become the Metropolitan of Arta in 1949, and the Metropolitan of Ioannina in 1958. From 1974-1998, would be Archbishop of Greece….

In early November 1943, Metropolitan Dhorotheos joined the guerrilla forces of Napoleon Zerva, EDES, wearing the military uniforms of this group. On Tuesday, June 27, 1944, about 2,500 EDES forces, led by Zerva and led that day by the Metropolitan of Paramythia, Dhorotheos, wearing military uniforms, committed massacres against Albanians, sparing no one.

June 3, 1944, Paramythia. On the right side of the infamous Zerva, is Metropolitan Dhorotheos in military uniforms (Photo provided by Arben Llalla).

After burning the Albanian houses, they killed and drove those who had escaped through the cobblestone streets of Paramithi… Metropolitan Dhorotheos, now the right-hand man of Napoleon Zerva, was marching with the EDES army. The leader of the massacres against the Albanians in Chameria is the Metropolitan of Paramithi, Dhorotheos, because he was a good connoisseur of the territory, personally knew all the nobility of Chameria and spoke the Albanian language.

The Metropolitan of Paramithi, Dhorotheos was Zerva’s right-hand man and guided him on every action he had to take in Chameria, since Napoleon Zerva did not know the territory or the people. After the war and the cleansing of Chameria from the Albanians ended, the two Metropolitans who had collaborated with the Germans were now looking for the part as savior of the Greeks in Southern Epirus-Chameria from the Muslim Chams…

…The Metropolitan of Ioannina, Spiridon Vllahu, was elected Archbishop of Athens and all Greece in 1949, and died in 1956. After being elected Archbishop of Greece in 1949, Spiridon Vllahu appointed Metropolitan of Arta, Serafeim, who had directly participated in the massacres against the Albanian population of Chameria. The blood of the Albanians of Chameria rewarded the designers and participants for a high clerical career, who left the robe of the religious clergy and wore the military uniform of EDES to cleanse Chameria of Muslim Albanians in 1944-1945.

The two participants in the Greek genocide against the Chams, the Metropolitan of Paramythia, Dhorotheos, and the simple priest Serafeim, climbed the ladder of their clerical careers precisely thanks to their participation in the massacres against the defenseless Muslim Albanians of Chameria…

By connecting the historical event, the activity of the two Metropolitans of Southern Epirus-Chameria, that of Ioannina, Spiridon Vllahu, and of Paramythia, Filati, Gjiromeriu, and of Parga, Dhorotheos Naskara, the secret letter of Archbishop Damaskinos by the courier who was wearing that Deacon, Sarafeim, who would later become Metropolitan and Archbishop, we conclude that the project to cleanse Chameria of Muslim Albanians was made precisely by the high clergy of the Church of Greece…

…Metropolitans Dhorotheos and Spiridon Vllahu knew the Albanian language because they had lived with Orthodox and Muslim Albanians in Chameria. They had both graduated from the Halki School of Theology in Istanbul, and had a hatred for Muslims…

…What prompted the Metropolitan of Paramythia to take off the robe of the spiritual man of the Orthodox believers and put on the military robes of EDES, when it is known that the Germans were protecting the leaders of the Greek church, the monasteries by direct order of Hitler? Why did the Metropolitan of Paramythia, Dhorotheos enter with EDES in Paramythia dressed in military uniform, to carry out massacres against the unprotected Albanian population and did not wear the robe of the Metropolitan?…

From all of this we have presented, we conclude that the designers of the Greek genocide against the Albanian population in Chameria are the Greek church, Archbishop Damaskinos, Metropolitan of Paramythia Dhorotheos and Metropolitan of Ioannina, Spiridon Vllehu. The Archbishop of Greece Seraphim, who at that time was a soldier of Napoleon Zerva’s EDES in Chameria, also participated in these masquerades… In June 1993, Archbishop Seraphim of Greece met in Athens with the Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic…”[9]

Today, at the beginning of the 21st century, another Greek or Vlach metropolitan has taken up the banner of anti-Albanianism, the Metropolitan of Konica, Andreas. Here is what the scholar and patriot Arben Llalla tells us about the exploits of this metropolitan: On Sunday, March 13, 2011, in the city of Larissa, Greece, several Greek nationalist associations organized a rally in commemoration of the Autonomy of Northern Epirus. The event began with the reading of a letter from the Metropolitan of Konica, Andreas, which stated, among other things:“…The population census in Albania (Census) is very important for Greeks, because Albania recognizes only 58 thousand ethnic Greeks, while in reality the number is over 250 thousand. If the Vlachs who are Greeks are also counted, the number of our minority will be even greater…”.

References

Besnik Imeri (taken from the book “The Grecianization of Epirus”)

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH THE MESSIAH OF THE GRECIANIZATION OF EPIRUS (IV)

By Besnik Imeri, Vlorë April 3, 2022

[1] Jean Claude Faveirial, History of Albania, Plejad-2004, Translated by Fr. Gent Ulqini, p, 450

[2] Jean Claude Faveirial, History of Albania, Plejad-2004, Translated by Fr. Gent Ulqini, p, 471,478

[3] Gazeta Ndryshe dated January 31, 2009

[4] Mid’hat Frashëri “L’affaire de l’Epire” 1919, in Geneva

[5] Kosta Papa Leusa, “Greek Barbarities in the New Albanian Language”, Bot. “Naimi”, 2012, Tirana, p, 31-37

[6] Arben Llalla, Greek collaborators, designers and leaders of the genocide in Chameria, Bot. Tringa Desing, Tetovo-2016, p, 112-113

[7] Kosta Papa Tomori, “Greek barbarities in Albania”, Bot.”Naimi”-2012, p.47,48,69,71,72,81,87, 88,93

[8] Kosta Papa Leusa, “Greek barbarities in Albania”, Bot. “Naimi”, 2012, Tirana, p, 36

[9] Arben Llalla, Greek collaborators, designers and leaders of the genocide in Chameria, Bot. Tringa Desing, Tetovo-2016, p, 114-121