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Re: Pope Francis and Russian patriarch to meet in Cuba in historic breakth
For a very different take on this "news"
Keep in mind that there are five Patriarchates in the Orthodox Church: Constantinople (considered the foremost); Antioch; Alexandria; Jerusalem; and Moscow.
Moscow is the newest because Russia was not converted until 988 AD, less than a century before the Great Schism in 1054 AD. At that time, Rome ceased to be one of the Patriarchates. Moscow is the replacement of the missing fifth, but not necessarily equal in grandeur and authority to Rome, except in its own mind.
When Patriarchs operate unilaterally it leads to trouble. That is what led up to A.D. 1054
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