Jesse Dominick
Rating: 8.9|Votes: 33
The Archons are Patriarch Bartholomew’s PR arm and fundraisers and few expected anything new from this meeting—the right of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to intervene in any Church situation anywhere, any time would be asserted again with little real engagement of the serious issues involved in every aspect of the current Church crisis in Ukraine and Constantinople’s role in it.
Rating: 8.3|Votes: 58
A festal Liturgy was celebrated at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral with his guests— primates and representatives from ten other Local Churches and the autonomous and self-governing bodies of the Moscow Patriarchate and a host of hierarchs from the Russian Orthodox Church.
St. Laurence of Chernigov
Rating: 8.6|Votes: 79
“To break away from the Church is the greatest and unforgiveable sin, for it is the sin against the Holy Spirit.”
Alexander Shchipkov
Rating: 8.4|Votes: 69
The threat of secular reformation is hanging over Orthodoxy.
Priest George Maximov
Rating: 9.2|Votes: 50
The Orthodox of various countries are looking on in perplexity and horror as the primate of a respected Church suddenly proclaims as his own canonical territory what has for over 300 years been accepted by everyone without exception as part of another Local Church, and pronounces those whom the entire Orthodox Church has unanimously recognized as schismatics to be part of the canonical Church—at the same time threatening to pronounce as schismatics those who have been abiding in Eucharistic unity with all the Local Churches.