Ecclesial Crisis in Ukraine

"This explains why the actions of the Ecumenical Patriarchate have created a schism in the Orthodox Christian Church worldwide and how it reflects a new ecclesiology that changes the traditional understanding of the Orthodox Church as headed only by Christ Himself. The creation of an autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) by the Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople caused a break in communion with 2018 the Russian Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Nikiforos, Abbot of the Kykkos monastery in Cyprus, calls for a conciliar solution in inter-Orthodox relations and assists others to see beyond the crisis as a political event between Russia and the West. Of interest to church historians as well as hierarchs and laity seeking consensus"- ]c Provided by publisher.