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And yet it was the Moscow Patriarch fifty years ago that granted Autocephaly to the American Orthodox church. Seems like the secular world view is trying to control the spiritual world — surprise, surprise.

3 posted on 09/14/2018 7:33:38 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)

4 posted on 09/14/2018 7:56:44 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)

Ukraine’s Orthodox population is among the most devout in the Orthodox world and there is historical precedent for their request. Not just in 1991 following the fall of the USSR, but going back centuries. Moscow has often undermined Kiev. Politically and spiritually.

This humble, insightful Russian man in St. Petersburg begs to differ with your conclusions. He claims:

“By serving the Kremlin rather than Christ, Moscow Patriarchate now a small national church.”

http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2018/09/by-serving-kremlin-rather-than-christ.html?m=1

5 posted on 09/14/2018 7:58:58 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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