ORTHODOX COLD WAR: Constantinople and Moscow

 


PROLOGUE

There has been a long-standing dispute between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Moscow Patriarchate. In our own time, this dispute reached its peak following the granting of autocephaly to the Church of Ukraine by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 2019. (...)

4. The use of Oiconomia (SECTION VI )

   

In an interview given on Christmas Day 2023 (new calendar, January 7, 2024), His Beatitude Patriarch Cyril of Moscow described the granting of autocephaly to the Church of Ukraine as “a great sin of Bartholomew.” Yet we must bear in mind that the only Judge is the Lord. He will judge whether Bartholomew committed a great sin. He will judge whether Cyril of Moscow handled the matter rightly.
He will judge Metropolitan Onuphrius as to whether he acted correctly in refusing to participate in the Council of Kyiv (December 15, 2018). And He will judge every primate who did not do what was necessary to bring peace to the Church of Ukraine.
Wise and virtuous Archimandrite Ioel Giannakopoulos (Greece) was entrusted with speaking at the ninth-day memorial service (1961) of Metropolitan Chrysostomos I of Messenia. Father Ioel dared to say:
“Brothers! Where is the bishop now? Before Christ! And what did Christ say to him as soon as He saw him?
‘Here, I am the Shepherd! Cast away your staff, remove your mitre, remove your mantle, remove your pectoral crosses; stand naked before Me and give an account…!’” If the judgment of God does not move us, then we, as shepherds, are dangerous to the salvation of the people.  

  

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