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- Apr 2024
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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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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- Monastery of Simonopetra
- Igor Cheremnykh
- Timothy Ware
- Andrei Tkachev
- Phanar
- Ecumenical Patriarchate
- Viktor Yanukovych
- Cyril Hovorun
- Wagner Group
- environmental movement
- primus inter pares
- religious leadership
- Constantine
- Russian Orthodox Church (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)
- Yevgeny Prigozhin
- References
- St. Panteleimon Monestary
- Orthodox Church of Ukraine
- Revolution of Dignity (Ukraine)
- Athos
- 1686 edict
- environmentalism
- monks and liquor
- Patriarch Kirill
- read
- The Great Schism
- Patriarch Bartholomew
- Orthodox Church
- Oleksandr Drabynko
- Vladimir Putin
- schisms
- Sinfonia
- third Rome
- Ioannis Lambriniadis (Elpidophoros of America)
- Feast of Saint Andrew
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- Aug 2015
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www.patriarchate.org www.patriarchate.org
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To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin. For human beings to cause species to become extinct and to destroy the biological diversity of God's creation; for human beings to degrade the integrity of the earth by causing changes in its climate, by stripping the earth of its natural forests, or by destroying its wetlands; for human beings to injure other human beings with disease by contaminating the earth's waters, its land, its air, and its life, with poisonous substances – all of these are sins.
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