Orthodoxwiki tells us about Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and Primate of Greece who died this week.
Wikipedia gives plenty of detail on the public impact Christodoulos made.
Christodoulos opposed the decision to remove the ‘Religion’ field from national ID cards, seeing as part of a wider plan to marginalise the Church from Greek public life and stating that the decision was “put forward by neo-intellectuals who want to attack us like rabid dogs and tear at our flesh”
In 2004 the Archbishop criticized globalisation as a “bulldozer that is out to demolish everything, on account of those who want to rule the world without resistance or obstacles” adding that Greeks live in a paradise compared to other Europeans, because “they have a strong faith, they build churches, follow traditions, and resist globalisation”.
On another occasion he stated that “the forces of Darkness cannot stand it [that Greece is a predominantly Orthodox country], and for this reason they want to decapitate it and flatten everything, by means of globalisation, the novel deity
Give us another like Christodoulos.
