Some Greeks Turn to Elder Paisios’ Prophecies on Russia-Turkey Conflict

paisios_warThe tension that was created after the shooting down of a Russian jet fighter by Turkish warplanes has led several Greeks to refer to Elder Paisios‘ prophecies about war between Russia and Turkey.




Saint Paisios reposed on July 12, 1994. One of the things he wrote was, “I wanted nothing else but God to keep me alive for a few more years so I could see my country expand. And it will expand…”

“Turkey will be dissected. This will be to our benefit as a nation. This way our villages will be liberated, our enslaved homelands. Constantinople will be liberated, will become Greek again. Hagia Sophia will open again,” the text reads.

“Turkey will be dissected in 3 or 4 parts. The countdown has begun. We will take the lands that belong to us, the Armenians will take theirs and the Kurds their own. The Kurdish issue is at the works,” the text continues.

Paisios wrote further: “As long as there is faith and hope in God, a lot of people will rejoice. All that will happen in these years. The time has come.”

Saint Paisios the Athonite was born Arsenios Eznepidis in July 1924, in Farasa Cappadocia. His father was called Prodromos and his mother Evlampia. He had eight siblings. On August 7, 1924, a week before the Greeks of Farasa returned to the homeland, he was baptized by the parish priest, Arsenios, whom the Orthodox Church recognized as a saint. Arsenios insisted and gave him his name “to leave a monk in his place,” as he said.

Five weeks after the boy’s christening, on September 14, 1924, the Eznepidis family, along with other refugees, arrived at Piraeus and then went to Corfu, where they stayed for eighteen months. The family then moved to Igoumenitsa and then to Konitsa where Arsenios finished elementary school and got his diploma with “excellent conduct.” Ever since he was a child, he was writing down the miracles of Saint Arsenios. He had an inclination towards monasticism and wanted to become a monk.


He was buried in the Holy Monastery of Saint John the Theologian in Souroti, Thessaloniki. Since then, every year on July 11 to July 12, the anniversary of his death, there is a vigil in the Sanctuary Retreat, with thousands of believers attending.




  1. Golden Dawn has openly stated that they consider the true Greek capital to be Constantinople and they will never abandon the goal of liberating Constantinople and restoring the Byzantine kingdom. In January 2014, 27-year-old Filippos Loizos was arrested by officers of the Greek Cyber Crimes Unit after Golden Dawn MPs demanded that he be prosecuted for insulting Saint Paisios on his facebook page. Filippos Loizos was subsequently convicted for habitual blasphemy and offense of religion. See more at:

  2. Excerpt of Saint Paisios writings:

    “May he who fights in the war for Faith and Fatherland cross himself and not fear, for God is his helper! God Himself will decide whether he is to die or to live. One needs to trust God, not oneself. The Russians will take Turkey. The Chinese will cross the Euphrates. Providence tells me that many events will happen: The Russians will take Turkey and Turkey will disappear from the world map because a third of the Turks will become Christians, another third will die in the war and another third will leave for Mesopotamia. The Mid-East will become a theater of a war in which the Russians will take place. Much blood will be spilled. The Chinese, with an army of 200 million, will cross the Euphrates and go all the way to Jerusalem. The sign that this event is approaching will be the destruction of the Mosque of Omar, for its destruction will mark the beginning of work by the Jews to rebuild the Temple of Solomon, which was built on the same spot. There will be a great war between Russians and Europeans, and much blood will be spilled. Greece won’t play a leading role in that war, but they’ll give her Constantinople. Not because the Russians adore the Greeks, but because no better solution will be found. The city will be handed over to the Greek Army even before it has a chance to get there. The Jews, inasmuch as they’ll have great power and the help of the European leadership, will become proud and insolent beyond measure and conduct themselves shamelessly. They’ll try to rule Europe. They’ll play all sorts of tricks, but the resulting persecutions will lead Christians to unite completely.”

  3. Excerpt of Saint Paisios writings:

    “The Zionists want to rule the earth. To achieve their ends they use black magic and satanism. They regard satan-worship as a means to gain the strength they need to carry out their plans. They want to rule the earth using satanic power. God is not something they take into account. One sign that the fulfillment of prophecy is near will be the destruction of the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem. They’ll destroy it in order to restore the Temple of Solomon which used to be on the same place. In the end the Jews will pronounce the Antichrist messiah in this rebuilt temple. The rabbis know that the true Messiah has already come and that they crucified Him. They know this, and yet they are blinded by egotism and fanaticism.”

  4. In order to be a Christian, as is mentioned in Gen 5:1, one must be of the Race or Family of Adman.

    Turks can never be according to Deut 23:3

  5. This man suffered psychologically as any child of refugees (and a refugee himself even if young). So he saw in his dreams something that would appease his suffering. It is well knowing in psychology it is called “resilience”.

    Now I would like some ultra-nationalist Greek (many here) to explain me:
    1-Why Russia would give back Constantinople to Greece and not keep it for themselves (Better control and safety for them)?
    2-If the Greek population is overwhelm (nationalists say) by migrants and Greeks have no kids: who will go live in this new Constantinople?
    Answering those 2 questions and you understand that it was only a sweet dream by a suffering man (probably a good man too). Thank you for your answers.

    By the way, I sadly think that we are going to a world war. Nuclear or chemical weapons might be used by both sides. But in this case I’m afraid that the few survivors will live in a complete nightmare….

  6. Getting something without working: topically Greek. Like the money of the Troika. You really believe that? Get real: if there is war Russians will not conquest but destroy Istanbul, so Greeks or anyone else will not get anything.


  8. give it to the greeks the armenians the kurds and the rest of the byzantium. They were always alies.

  9. russians are orhodox instabul is filled with orthodox churches they turks use those assets to make money. If anyone destroys them it will be the turks since they have no respect for those assets.


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