One Cross For Two
... creation of 12 predominantly European regions of Episcopal Assembly, which also limits the influence of Constantinople. Finally, the Council was moved from Istanbul to Crete under pressure from the Moscow Patriarchate. In this regard, the meeting between Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis would seem to be a carefully and finely planned event, one that has raised the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church to a qualitatively new level and made their statement a document of particular importance. This 30-paragraph declaration is the largest and most substantial joint text ever published by the heads of the Catholic and Orthodox churches....