O heavenly King, O Comforter, the Spirit of Truth
who are in all places and fillest all things:
Treasury of good things and Giver of life:
Come and dwell in us and cleanse us from every stain,
and save our souls, O good One.
If there is a total schism in the Orthodox Church the list of those who attended vs. those who did not attend the Council of Crete may serve as a preview:
Churches that attended
Church of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarchate)
Church of Alexandria
Church of Jerusalem
Church of Serbia
Church of Romania
Church of Cyprus
Church of Greece
Church of Poland
Church of Albania
Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia
Churches that did not attend
Church of Antioch
The Antiochian Church pulled out due to the dispute over the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of Qatar that is also claimed by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.[31]
Church of Georgia
The Georgian Orthodox Church pulled out due to disagreements about several of the Synod’s documents, in particular “The Relation of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World”.[
Orthodox Church in America
The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) was not invited due to the lack of recognition of her autocephaly by other autocephalous Churches.
Russian Church
The Russian Orthodox Church pulled out because of her belief that the council is not truly “pan-orthodox” without the Antiochan, Bulgarian, or Georgian churches.
Church of Bulgaria
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church pulled out due to disagreements on some of the texts already approved for the Synod meeting, and specifically that those texts would not be subject to editing in the course of discussions.
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The true wild card is the OCA, not embraced by either the EP or MP. It may emerge as the “bridge church” or as totally isolated and without canonical standing.