We are facing the biggest split in Christendom for 1,000 years – and Western Christians have barely noticed it. That, at least, is the view of the Russian Orthodox Church, which is currently engaged in a dispute that could tear apart the Orthodox world.
The Russians are outraged because the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, has sent two exarchs (envoys) to Ukraine. He has asked them to prepare the way for a “tomos of autocephaly” – a declaration of independence for Ukrainian Orthodox Christians.
