The reason I am posting it for you Hermann is to counter your position on authority and your apparent disdain for Khomiakov.
"We both believe that defending and living the Faith is the province of the whole People of God and not merely the clergy. It is the whole People of God also who are ultimately responsible for the legitimacy of any ministry or teaching which is exercised in its midst."
"Orthodoxy's ecclesiastical polity is based on the Council and conciliarity. This is how the mind of the Church emerges as the Holy Spirit speaks to the assembled faithful."
To help you understand that Khomiakov's view is the view of the church. As I just recently posted, in the Orthodox church, we are all popes. One patriarch does not make a church nor have any authority to define anything other than his beliefs.
No, but a Council of Bishops do, can, and have.
The end of his confession reads:
I, DOSITHEUS, by the mercy of God, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and of all Palestine, declare and confess this to be the faith of the Eastern Church.
followed with more than five full pages of signatories.
As noted before, when the Anglican Non-Jurors sought union with Orthodoxy, this Confession was sent to them as something to be accepted without question on any point as the basis of unity. So it does not appear at any time in history as "just the opinion of Patriarch Whooziwhatzit".
For you to deny these facts simply makes you look ridiculous.