Supporters claimed the union healed a major schism and “restored” ROCOR’s “canonical position.”
Opponents — including the continuing ROCOR groups who refused to unite — warned that joining an ecclesiastical structure deeply tied to the Russian state’s external affairs apparatus would eventually create exactly the kind of political vulnerability we’re seeing now.
Both interpretations have resurfaced amid the geopolitical fallout of the Ukraine war and the recent high-profile visit of ROCOR-MP, Serbian, and Antiochian bishops to the White House.
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