According to the Russian SVR, Patriarch Bartholomew wants to forcibly remove Russian Orthodoxy from the Baltic States

Patriarch Bartholomew is obsessed with the idea of ousting Russian Orthodoxy from the territory of the Baltic states, and he is supported by the British special services, the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Ministry reported.

“According to information received by the SVR, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who dismembered Orthodox Ukraine, continues his schismatic activities in the Orthodox church space. Now he has fixed his black eye on the Baltic countries. This “devil in the flesh” is obsessed with the idea of ousting Russian Orthodoxy from the territory of the Baltic states, establishing in its place church structures completely controlled by the Phanar. In this, he is strongly supported by the British special services, which are actively fueling Russophobic sentiments in European countries,” the report says.

As noted by the SVR, with their submitted documents, Patriarch Bartholomew “found a common language with the authorities of the Baltic states in an effort to bring confusion to the Russian Orthodox world.”

“Relying on ideological allies in the person of local nationalists and neo-Nazis, he is trying to detach the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian Orthodox churches from the Moscow Patriarchate by luring their priests and flock into the puppet religious structures artificially created by Constantinople,” the report says.