Declaration of an excommunication upon Pope Benedict XVI and John Paul II (+video)
Lvov – Ukraine, 1 May 2011
The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate by authority of the apostolic and prophetic office in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ obliges before God all Catholics in conscience and promulgates:
1) Beatification of the deceased Pope John Paul II is invalid.
2) The deceased Pope John Paul II (Gal 1:8-9) excommunicated himself from the Church of Christ. The reason was his apostatical gesture in Assisi by which he opened the Church to the spirit of antichrist.
3) By beatification of the spirit of Assisi – the spirit of antichrist – Pope Benedict XVI likewise excommunicated himself from the Church of Christ.
Proclamation of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate 7.4.2011. (video)
On 5 April 2011, the Bishops’ Synod of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church held an assembly in Zhovkva (Ukraine). The Synod considered the issue of the critical state of the Catholic Church, concerning primarily violation of the saving faith and acceptance of a new teaching and a different spirit which is contrary to the fundamental truths of the Gospel and the Apostolic Tradition. The Synod resolved to establish a personal Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate.
