THE UKRANIAN ECCLESIOLOGICAL AND GEOPOLITICAL AFFAIR..
our statement prolog to a following text of HESTIA OF PATRISTIC STUDIES The purpose is neither to vindicate the Russian or the Ecumenical Patriarchate, nor to have either of them—whether one or the other—cooperate or continue cooperating in geopolitical expediency, circumstances, or practices in favor of the world’s powerful. Rather, it is to highlight and manifest the Truth (aletheia) and to restore Ecclesial Order on the basis of Ecclesial History, Holy Tradition, the divinely inspired and true Orthodox Faith, and the Sacred Canons. As is well known, the Slavic patriarchates constitute modern (18th-century and later) constructs outside the sacred Ecclesiastical History and Tradition of the ancient Patriarchates; they arose from strong Slavic national sentiment or mindset, which at times exceeds Truth and Unity in the Orthodox Ecclesia. They ought, instead, to have remained Archdioceses under the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Yet the Ecumenical Patriarchate itself must ...