The Fener (Istanbul) Patriarch Bartholomew’s visit to Ukraine (20-24 August) has already caused reactions from the Russian Orthodox Church. As I wrote in my previous articles, tensions between Istanbul and Moscow Patriarchates turned into a serious conflict and resulted in the termination of relations between these two significant churches of the Orthodox world because of the situation in Ukraine. In ...
Istanbul (Fener) Patriarch Bartholomew’s visit to Ukraine has already sparked tensions and reactions in the Orthodox world. As we will see, these tensions have more to do with geopolitics than religion. As I mentioned in a previous article (Religion and Geopolitics: The Split in the Orthodox World: https://unitedworldint.com/15021-religion-and-geopolitics-the-split-in-the-orthodox-world/), this is a matter of conflict between the Istanbul (Fener) Patriarchate and ...