Here’s another statement, this from the website of Nativity Ukrainian Church in Eugene, OR.
“Ukrainian Catholic Church
“Eastern Christianity took a firm root in Ukraine in 989 when Vladimir, Prince of Kiev, embraced the Christian Faith and was baptized. Soon afterwards many missionaries from the Byzantine Empire arrived, having been sent by the Patriarch of Constantinople to preach the Gospel.
“When the Church of Rome and the Church of Constantinople severed ties with one another in the 11th century, the Church in Ukraine gradually followed suit and finally gave up the bonds of unity with Rome. When Ukrainian Orthodox bishops met at a council in Brest-Litovsk in 1595, seven bishops decided to re-establish communion with Rome. Guaranteed that their Byzantine tradition and Liturgy would be respected and recognized by Rome, they and many priests and lay faithful were re-united with the See of Rome, while others continued to remain Orthodox.
“In the 19th century many Ukrainian Catholics began to emigrate to North America, bringing their pastors, traditions and liturgy to Canada and the United States. Under Communist rule, Catholics in Ukraine were persecuted, with many being imprisoned and murdered; in 1945 all the Ukrainian Catholic bishops were arrested or killed.
“Today the Ukrainian Catholic Church is the largest Eastern Catholic Church, with about 5 million faithful. It is led by His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Galicia. His election was confirmed by Pope Benedict XVI on 25 March 2011.”
So if Protestants did that, they’d be counted as different denominations and used as an example of the short comings of sola Scripture, part of that alleged 30,000 different denominations because of allegedly 30,000 different interpretations of Scripture,
The rationale being that they split because they interpreted Scripture differently, therefore YOPIOS is not valid.
We should all be under the teaching authority of ONE denomination, which does not allow for doctrinal differences, that you just showed me exist within Catholicism.
The same thing happens, and yet when it’s within Catholicism, it displays the alleged unity of the Catholic faith and when it happens within Protestantism, it shows the alleged inadequacy of depending on Scripture alone and the leading of the Holy Spirit.
That is not consistent to apply two standards to both systems of faith.