“The head of Cyprus’ Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos II, has offered to mortgage the church’s assets to get Cyprus out of its financial hole.”

The Church chooses to put itself in the position where it sells it autonomy to foreign interests – a move that can be hardly explained by sound Orthodox thinking and demonstrates profound lack of understanding of the nature of the problem.

Cyprus Seeks Divine Intervention to Financial Crisis

This is not the first time this Patriarch shows he does not represent the Orthodox interests: In 2010 he slammed religious groups who opposed the Pope’s visit, warning that they put themselves outside the Church.