Who Will Budge First?

The new Vatican document “The Bishop of Rome” clocks in at around 43,000 words.

That’s somewhere between three to six hours of reading.

Here’s a brief guide for busy readers: https://t.co/dgUZn4hcNU

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) June 13, 2024

Maybe

Do Bishops Have Rights vis-à-vis the Pope? Does the Pope Have Duties vis-à-vis the Bishops? https://t.co/vRA333plO3 pic.twitter.com/lVqhzmrFG9

— NLM (@NLMblog) May 16, 2024

A Latin Polemic for Rome's Claims About Primacy

“Everyone knows that the keys of the kingdom were given to Peter. Upon his faith and teaching the whole fabric of the Church will continue to be built until we all reach full maturity in Christ and attain to unity in faith and knowledge of the Son of God.” -St. Thomas Becket

— Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP (@FrAquinasOP) December 30, 2022

Latin Ecclesiology 101

The Bishop of Rome as successor of Peter constitutes the principle of unity, which can only be realized by one person.https://t.co/hVO4cPJG8Z

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) February 1, 2021

"But JP2!"

Pope Francis just the consequence of that problem which is Latin ecclesiology/Roman claims about primacy.

Confusion twice confounded: On the motu proprio Spiritus Domini by Peter M.J. Stravinskas

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— Ortho.Bro ☦️ (@bro_ortho) January 11, 2021

Metropolitan Hilarion Presents the MosPat Perspective

A Political Structure and an Unwanted Autocephalyhttps://t.co/GwJr3KDtLc

An interview by Kathimerini with Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev). Part 2
Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)

How did any autocephaly in Church history begin? With this or that Church declaring its desire t... pic.twitter.com/x3d7BCdljB

— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) December 22, 2020

A Proper Role for the Universal Primate?

The Holy Father #PopeFrancis has erected a new eparchy for Byzantine-Ukrainians in Gdansk. This is a region where Ukrainians were displaced in large numbers from their ancestral lands after the Second World War. https://t.co/1vDBGkd1vO

— Fr Alexander Laschuk (@byzkanonist) November 25, 2020

A localist, communion-ecclesiological understanding of jurisdiction would focus more on the people seeking to have a presbyter/bishop of their own rite petitioning for acceptance from the Christian majority of a different rite who live in an area? (Not that the majority would have a right to reject their request, but a request out of charity and politeness protocol/etiquette.) And the local presbyteral synod would welcome the new presbyter/bishop to their synod. Something like that...

Grasping for Primacy

Pathetic.

Phanar: To avoid becoming like Protestants, ecclesiology must be revised

The Ambition of Constantinople?

There are secular forces that are pushing the Ecumenical Patriarchate forward in its ever more expansive claims. The United States has used the EP’s interference in Ukraine as an arm of its anti-Russian foreign policy. https://t.co/Sgb9lOCSP1

— Orthodox Reflections (@OrthodoxReflec1) November 17, 2020

The Polemics Continue

Constantinople-schismatic apologetics published in Georgian on eve of Pompeo visit to Patriarch Iliahttps://t.co/yQ2mpZjpsg

The work, published by Pantocrator Monastery on Mt. Athos, goes so far as to accuse the Moscow Patriarchate of creating the schism in Ukraine in the ea... pic.twitter.com/eAyOdMhiLB

— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) November 16, 2020

Patriarch Bartholomew: Without a “First Without Equals,” Orthodoxy risks falling into Protestantismhttps://t.co/QYy3KY3Wb6

If the Orthodox Church does not clearly proclaim the ecclesiology of a “First Without Equals,” in which the Patriarch of Constantinople enjoys not only ... pic.twitter.com/GmwS4RlVZ5

— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) November 16, 2020

"There is one ‘First’ not only in terms of honor but also in terms of special responsibilities and canonical competencies assigned by the Ecumenical Councils," said the @EcuPatriarch #orthodox_times

https://t.co/VqJ83Kmn5V

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) November 14, 2020

Scandalous Division

The convening of a Holy or Pan-Orthodox Synod is requested by associations of theologians of #Cyprus on the occasion of the recognition of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of #Ukraine#orthodox_timeshttps://t.co/x5DsphiBqL

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) November 10, 2020

Constantinople is stuck in the past, promotes liberal ecclesiology—UOC representativehttps://t.co/Of9zkpMEBf

“But you can’t turn the Church into a museum of Byzantine history,” Fr. Nikolai Danilevich said. pic.twitter.com/NjQDxjZuq4

— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) November 10, 2020

Byzantine Triumphalism

How much more do they have to lose before they learn the lesson? Lord have mercy. All jurisdictions will have to re-evaluate their notions of primacy and ecclesial authority before there can be full reconciliation. Matthew 20:25.

"The Church of Constantinople was blessed by God to be the guardian of the Tradition of the Apostles and the Fathers" #orthodox_times @EcuPatriarch

https://t.co/yQQ1syRyZZ

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) November 8, 2020

Primacy and Synodality in the Orthodox Church

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware on Synodality and Primacy

OrthoChristian: SYNODALITY AND PRIMACY IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
From the Keynote Address by Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware of Diokleia) at the IOTA Inaugural Conference, 9-12 January 2019 in Iasi, Romania
Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware)

What is the aim of every council? It is, through the exercise of collective discernment, to attain a common mind. Yet this common mind is not simply the sum total of the convictions of the various participants.

Another on Synodality

OrthoChristian: CONCILIARITY, PRIMACY, AND RECIPROCITY: THE FOUNDATIONS OF ORTHODOX UNITY by Anna Stickles

Metropolitan Seraphim of Glastonbury: Pharaisaical Legalism alive and well in contemporary Orthodoxy

(via Byz Tx)

"Who's Primus?"

Can Orthodoxy Exist Without the Ecumenical Patriarchate

Bishop Irenei on Primacy

OrthoChristian: PRIMACY AND IDENTITY by Bishop Irenei (Steenberg)
A Response to ‘First Without Equals’ and the Tragedy of Deficient Ecclesiology

A Byzantine Catholic Look at the Orthodox Trouble

Church Life: The Orthodox Schism Under Western Eyes by Chase Padusniak

Macedonia

Crisis: What the Macedonian Church’s Fight for Autonomy Signifies by Ines A. Murzaku