If anyone follows happenings in the Orthodox world, what Bartholomew is complaining about is par for the course. Orthodoxy has been plagued by ethnocentrism for centuries. In other words, it's more about being Greek, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, etc. They even have a term for it: phyletism.

You would think that he would be reprimanding Patriarch Theodore for “ordaining” deaconesses, but, he doesn’t really have any authority, so, it doesn’t matter all that much.