Schismatic? Is orthodoxy organized as a unitary church or as national churches? Since it is by national churches then the Ukrainian church has every right to be independent from the Russian Orthodox Church.
Figures you’d be on here defending apostates and The Puppet of Constantinople.
This guy Kirill is full of himself, isn’t he?
The Eastern Orthodox Church is a group of churches, each with its own head (autocephalous). But the ecumenical patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Istanbul (Constantinople) is the “first among equals.” Presently that is Bartholomew.
There are Eastern Orthodox Churches all over the place, with Russia and Ukraine just being two of them. So, Kirill is no higher authority than the patriarch of Ukraine, or any other Eastern Orthodox Church.
Even the Russian clerics have an exaggerated opinion of themselves. Is it something in the water in Russia?