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- Apr 2024
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Worth, Robert F. “Clash of the Patriarchs.” The Atlantic, April 10, 2024. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/russia-ukraine-orthodox-christian-church-bartholomew-kirill/677837/.
A fantastic overview of the history, recent changes and a potential schism in the Orthodox Church with respect to the Russia/Ukraine conflict.
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In October 2018, just weeks after his tense meeting with Kirill in Istanbul, Bartholomew dissolved the 1686 edict that had given Moscow religious control over Ukraine.
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Bartholomew’s most distinctive effort to “update” the Church is his commitment to environmentalism. In the press, he is sometimes called the Green Patriarch. When, in 1997, he declared that abusing the natural environment was a sin against God, he became the first major religious leader to articulate such a position.
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But Bartholomew’s power is more limited than the pope’s. There are eight other Orthodox patriarchs, each of whom presides over a national or regional Church, and Bartholomew’s role is that of “first among equals.”
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- Orthodox Church of Ukraine
- schisms
- Constantine
- environmentalism
- monks and liquor
- Viktor Yanukovych
- Igor Cheremnykh
- Patriarch Kirill
- St. Panteleimon Monestary
- Monastery of Simonopetra
- Cyril Hovorun
- Andrei Tkachev
- Orthodox Church
- The Great Schism
- Athos
- third Rome
- Yevgeny Prigozhin
- Revolution of Dignity (Ukraine)
- religious leadership
- Russian Orthodox Church (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)
- Wagner Group
- References
- primus inter pares
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- Vladimir Putin
- Feast of Saint Andrew
- Ioannis Lambriniadis (Elpidophoros of America)
- Oleksandr Drabynko
- Phanar
- Patriarch Bartholomew
- 1686 edict
- environmental movement
- Ecumenical Patriarchate
- Sinfonia
- Timothy Ware
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