[Alex Murphy]

A leading official of the Russian Orthodox Church said that Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I represented only his own Patriarchate of Constantinople, and not the world’s other Orthodox churches, in his meeting with Pope Francis, according to a report from the Religious Information Service of Ukraine.

Metropolitan Hilarion, the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Department of External Church Relations, said that the Ecumenical Patriarch had not consulted with the leaders of other Orthodox churches before meeting with the Pope, according to the report. The Ecumenical Patriarch holds a primacy of honor among the Orthodox churches, the largest of which is the Russian Orthodox Church.

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[CTrent1564]

I am curios as to why the “Defacto Leader of the Calvinist Brigades” is interested in Catholic and Orthodox dialogue and in this case, Russian Orthodoxy in essence taking a shot at the Patriarch of Constantinople.

Care to share with us Catholics your thoughts on the Pope and Patriarch’s Meeting and the Russian Orthodox Church’s views on that meeting.