The MP/EP Split – Five Years On

In 2018, I wrote about the recent schism between Moscow and Constantinople from the perspective of the GOC/TOC.  I was particularly interested in how the same people who clutch their pearls and condemn the Old Calendarists for separating themselves from the ecclesiological errors and subsequent heresy of the new Calendarists as they plunged headlong from Read more about The MP/EP Split – Five Years On[…]

The MP-EP Schism: It’s Not a Surprise; It is a Big Deal

What are we to make of this recent development in World Orthodoxy which, while percolating for some time, bubbled over this week when the synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate decided that, functioning as a court of last appeal, it would (25+ years post hoc) reinstate the deposed bishop Filaret Denysenko, along with other claimants to Read more about The MP-EP Schism: It’s Not a Surprise; It is a Big Deal[…]