“Patriarch Filaret” is no Patriarch at all, no Bishop, and no Orthodox Christian. He is an excommunicated schismatic!!!!
http://orthochristian.com/112773.html
Poroshenko is the head of an obama coup-installed government, and has no right to make Church policy anyway—as a layman!!!!
The “conflict between Ukraine and Russia for centuries” was the project of the long-vanished Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth—Roman Catholic to the core!!!!
The bogus “Patriarch” and bogus “President” are going to create a lot of trouble in the Orthodox Church, that will last of a very long time. Lord have mercy!!!!
Again. More Kremlin talking points. Zero spiritual insight. And zero accountability for Moscow Patriarchate’s mistakes.
There is a lot of truth to that. Add to which this is much more about the centuries old tension between Constantinople and Moscow over who is the top dog. Bart has been showing papal pretensions for quite some time, which when considered in the context of his radical ecumenism, his general tolerance for things like homosexuality and abortion, and more recently his decision to permit already ordained priests to remarry contrary to the ancient canons of the church makes him a natural ally of the Roman Catholic Church and Pope Francis. The EP is also quite furious over Moscow and several other local churches refusing to play along with his robber council at Crete.
Bottom line- this has nothing to do with Moscow’s allegedly unsavory political ties. It has everything to do with ecclesial power politics... the EP trying to assert a universal jurisdiction that they don’t have under church canons and a good old fashioned dose of revenge.