Anybody following this? In Ukraine, there are no less than three orthodox churches, two of them considered not legitimate by the international community of orthodox churches. The third one is a sister of the Russian orthodox church, and legitimate (canonical). Now there's a guy in the city we know thanks to TMBG wasn't always called Istanbul, and he is some kind of maverick, honorary guy given that sad story and the former glory. Now he has decided to declare the two shismatic churches of Ukraine legitimate, and declared his intention (but hasn't yet done it) to grant independence to a to-be-formed unified Ukrainian orthodox church, cutting the ties to the Russian orthodox church. Which is completely out of his competence according to all canonical international church leaders who yet commented, and today the Russian orthodox church (which is by far the largest of them all, but has no power over the others), declared the Constantinople guy to be considered a splitter until he repents and accepts that the other splitters are still splitters. Doom prophecies ensue and of course the US State Department and its Putsch regime is involved. More infos at our wiki page where I made a nice collage of five greybearded men this afternoon to illustrate the events. I was tempted to call it "propellerhats.png" but stuck to "orthodoxies.png" to not hurt any feelings...
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