The Breakup of Rus’: Ukrainian Orthodoxy Between Constantinople and Moscow
The emergence of an independent Orthodox Church in Ukraine is likely to create a permanent breakup in the Orthodox world between the Moscow Patriarchate, whose identity lies in the spiritual unity of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, whose mandate is the coordination and resolution of conflicts within and across Orthodox churches. Theocharis Grigoriadis proposes two models which may offer grounds for the rise of an independent Ukrainian Church without instigating a new Cold War between the Western and Eastern visions of global Orthodoxy.
