“Why is it the Russian Church feels it speaks for all of Orthodoxy? That’s the position of the EP.”
Actually it is the position of neither the Patriarch of Moscow or of the Patriarch of Constantinople. The Patriarch of Constantinople is just the First among Equals. He cannot speak “ex cathedra” for other autocephalis Orthodox Churches. Neither can the MP.
However the MP is correct when he points out that a decision towards union with Catholocism, taken unilaterally by the Patriarch of Constantinople is not binding on any other Orthodox Church.
I would trust the MP before I would the EP.
The EP is Jesuit-educated, and would throw out the “baby with the bath water”.........