"If you have studied the life and writings of Luther, as I have, you would know how often Luther appealed to the state of the Eastern Churches to justify his schism."
Luther's justifications were his alone. Orthodoxy didn't give him an imprimatur. Indeed within a generation of his death, the EP slapped down his successors hard when they appealed to him. I must say that to say that the Protestant Revolution was some how or other Orthodoxy's fault is rather beyond the pale. To my knowledge, even the most fanatical partisans of the papacy never claimed that, though I could be wrong. It sounds, however, like something the Latins would say, their pope being infallible and all and they did say that the Protestant's revolt was in effect a revolt against God Himself.
Matthew 20:25-28 But Jesus called them to Himself and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."Christ answered the question Himself, no one of the Apostles had authority over the rest.