[lizol]

OK. Thanks! You've calmed me down, as I got really angered with the information I got from the above article and from TV.

The only thing I wonder is whether Russian Orthodox Church's stance is the same?

As far as I know Orthodox Churches in different countries are independent (in Polish it's called autokefalia, I don't know the proper word in English). And relations between Pope and Orthodox Churches in Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine were OK. He had visited those countries, met and spoken to Otrhodox patriarchs of those Churches.

I think the only exception was the Russian Orthodox Church. Reasons - see the above article.

[toothfairy86]

In English it's autocephalous.