"Conservatives of all countries, connect!" Patriarch meets with the Roman dad

Moscow Patriarch and Pope meet in Cuba to discuss the persecution of Christians in the Middle East. This is not an official visit which dad applied to Constantinople in November 2014. In addition, it is clear in advance what can be said here, so no one expects any breakthrough decisions from this meeting. Nevertheless, almost everyone talks about her. Why? Is this so important when two world leaders are found on neutral territory, at the airport, a cup of coffee or lemonade, in order to condemn the obvious evil together?

In fact, the main thing in this meeting is that it will take place at all, for the first time in world history. In church policy, many events and actions become clear only at a long distance. Catholics and Orthodox officially divided in 1054, when Roman Pope and the Patriarch Constantinople mutually cursed each other, and this split became irreversible in 1204, when the crusaders took and plundered Constantinople.

In those days, the Russian lands were part of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and did not take special participation in these events. An independent church in Rus' arose only in the 15th century, precisely based on the results of the meeting of the Patriarch of Constantinople with the pope. By then, Byzantium had become a tiny fragment before the Great Empire, she hardly restrained the onslaught of Turkish-Sosmans and hoped for the help of the West. And therefore, most Byzantine bishops agreed to submit to Rome by accepting the Florentine Union of 1438. True, this did not particularly help them.

In Rus', the Orthodox union rejected and proclaimed that they were no longer subordinate to Constantinople. In addition, the imperial capital was soon taken by the Turks, and the growing Moscow power turned out to be the largest, if not the only Orthodox state in the world.

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