Now there's a theory I have never heard before. I find it hard to believe, Padre, that the Reformers of the 16th century were taking their inspiration from the Patriarchates of the East. Certainly some of the generation after Luther tired to connect with Orthodoxy, but it came to nothing and I can't see where an unaffiliated ecclesiology can be found anywhere in the history of The Church in the East. The one place that one might be able to find Orthodoxy in the Reformation in the West is England where arguably there was at least some consciousness of a pre-Roman Catholic, "national" particular church which had strong ties not only to Constantinople but also to the monasteries of the Egyptian desert and which was all but destroyed after 664. Are you aware of any histories or writings which indicate among the Reformers an awareness and understanding of the communion and primacy issues which lead to the firming up of the Great Schism between, say, 900 and 1453?
Just the fact that dissent existed, my friend, in a world where dissent was disallowed/frowned upon.