Why Russia and Ukraine also fight over religion

In this video we are exploring the rather obscure 2018 Moscow-Constantinople schism within the Orthodox Church and its effects on the politics of Eastern Europe. It was caused by the decision of the ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I., to grant autocephalous (the right to self-governance of a church) to the newly formed Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Until then, Ukraine was recognised by all other recognised Orthodox Churches to be under the jurisdiction of the Russian-Orthodox Church. This event has not only impacted the adherents of Orthodoxy in Russia and Ukraine, but will also influence the politics of the entire region.
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Music:
Pirouette (by Asher Fulero)
Habanera (by Bizet)
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:23 What is the Orthodox Church?
2:34 Developments until 1990
5:05 Developments after 1990
5:57 The schism & its consequences
6:59 Impact on Ukraine
8:28 Impact on other Orthodox churches & nations
10:10 Conclusion & Outro
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Sources:
Ware, Timothy (2015) The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity
Seddon, Max (2019) Putin and the Patriarchs; www.ft.com/content/a41ed014-c38b-11e9-a8e9-296ca66511c9
Masci, David (2019) Split between Ukrainian, Russian churches shows political importance of Orthodox Christianity; www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/14/split-between-ukrainian-russian-churches-shows-political-importance-of-orthodox-christianity/
If you like to know about more sources I used, feel free to contact me.
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#ukraine #russia #orthodox

[@PoliticswithPaint]

Hello, since this topic is so complex I had to cut things here and there I would still like to mention in this comment for anyone who is interested: 02:00 To be precise, there are actually five ancient Patriarchates, the fifth being the Patriarch of Rome, who is the Pope. However, the Pope and the Western church split from the Eastern church in 1054 in an event known as the ‘Great Schism’, which separated the Roman Catholic Church from the Orthodox Church indefinitely. Therefore, although still considered one of the ancient Patriarchs, the Pope is not part of the structure of the Orthodox church. If you like to know more, here is a great video explaining this event in detail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5DWaoWZqMxoi6s 03:43 One of the reasons why the church of Russia became independent from Constantinople is the fact that the last Byzantine Emperors, in an act of desperation, converted to Roman Catholicism. The Church in the Byzantine Empire then entered into communion with the Holy See (the Pope), which was outright rejected by the Russians. However, this did not save the Byzantines from the Ottomans and this communion became meaningless after 1453. 05:37 To clarify, while the Patriarch of Constantinople has the right to grant autocephaly to a church, he cannot force the other autocephalous churches to recognise churches to which he grated it. He can invite them to do so, but as mentioned in the video, only three churches have done so far.

[@robertjarman4261]

Return to Rome.They are not perfect but if we don't we will be worse off than the fragmented Protestant church.

[@consideringorthodoxy5495]

Technically Eastern Orthodoxy is the second largest Christian church because Protestantism is a classification of many separate churches rather than a church itself.

[@franciscosanchezpascua5030]

@@robertjarman4261 ... It should be the other way around. Rome was the one who left the 4 original Patriarchates.

[@GR-sc3ph]

Ref: 05:37 this is what I also knew from the history of the Orthodox Church .. I also read that there is a deep hidden antagonism between the two patriarchates namely the Constantinople and Russian one. Having said that it is vital that we stay united and avoid further schismatic actions that would result into a weaker and vulnerable church.

[@throwaway9226]

Another nerd point, there were originally 4 patriachates; Rome, where Sts Peter & Paul were martyred, Alexandria where Mark the Evangelist founded the predecessor to the Coptic Church, and Antioch, which was St Peter's first diocese, and Jerusalem, by St James the Righteous. Constantinople was founded by St Andrew, but it was not an especially important See until the Roman empire was split between the Greek and Latin halves. "Western" or Latin Christianity rejected Caesaropapism, where secular authority merges with the Church and exerts control over the head of the Church with the right of appointment. This role is performed by the Pope in Rome and has his own country (the vatican) to ensure that secular governments do not interfere directly with doctrine through the right of appointment and dismissal. This is especially so after the Avignon Papacy. The 'prisoner of the Vatican' debacle where the Pope refused to acknowledge the Kingdom of Italy's jurisdiction over him lead to the Lateran treaty, which meant that he got his own little country and Italy was recognised by the Pope in return.

[@alameano]

Regardless of if people are religious or not, religious history is so fascinating and has so many deep layers to it.

[@nikto618]

For Pride.

[@koksalceylan9032]

Peoples have much of imagination and creat Nice stories,when tools long enough it becomes believing,Faith then religion.

[@abdullahimohamed8669]

@@koksalceylan9032 wow another edgy athist better post this on r/athist

[@ThisHandleIsNotTaken.]

It’s an onion!

[@memeboi6017]

like an onion

[@daveogfans413]

This is like Sam O'Nella's smart cousin who makes great history videos in stead of jokes.

[@ohitsstar1241]

You mean sam o’nella DOESNT make great history videos???

[@proudtitanicdenier4300]

So just, German Sam O'Nella

[@daveogfans413]

@@proudtitanicdenier4300 I see what you did there :)

[@peterolesen3567]

@@ohitsstar1241 He doesn't if you aren't 12 years old.

[@ohitsstar1241]

@@peterolesen3567 so i see you are a big fan of his

[@julianivanov3058]

Why have I never heard about this? This is fascinating! By the way, I love your channel. Keep making amazing content like this please

[@dukenukem8381]

you never heard about this cause it puts Russia in a bad light. Russia basically controls any info that comes out if eastern Europe. If Russia does not want you to know something they will make it so

[@alexvig2369]

You didn't hear about it because westerners generally only care about Catholic & Protestant affairs. Like when the (Catholic) Pope dies and the following papal election. While matters of the Orthodox Church are more of a concern amongst former-eastern bloc countries. People media outlets in Eastern Europe do care about it, however.

[@alexvig2369]

@@dukenukem8381 what!? That's utter crap. Russia has no control over media outlets outside of it. There's plenty of anti-Russian media outlets in Ukraine and the like. The real question is - why aren't *western* media outlets reporting about these affairs to western audiences - and the answer is in my former comment.

[@realtalk6195]

@@dukenukem8381 Talk about being delusional. Now Russia is the one with media influence? Majority of Eastern Euro countries are in the EU, and especially when its the topic of Ukraine there's nothing that could get in the way of int'l media reporting on it. They don't because religious schisms are irrelevant (to them). There's been countless schisms in the modern age, including within Eastern Orthodoxy.

[@dukenukem8381]

@@alexvig2369 So whats the Westerners source of info on Russia tell me.

[@balkanharry1755]

In Greece we have an archbishop, not a patriarch, as the ecumenical patriarch is the Greek patriarch but only in name...in the southern half of the country... the northern half or the "new provinces" as they are technically called, is under the direct jurisdiction of the ecumenical patriarch. Although the archbishop still handles the bishoprics. Oh and don't get me started on Crete - The whole thing is a mess but in the words of one Todd Howard: "It just works".

[@ayanlethesomali7357]

Why is the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria seperately autocephalous? i don’t see that many Greeks in Egypt currently

[@fallendown8828]

@@ayanlethesomali7357 What are you talking about?? %5/10 of Egypt is Coptic Christians. That's more Christian than Czechia

[@vladodobleja748]

What's up with Crete and why do you have this North-South divide?

[@esotericulmanist8331]

​@@vladodobleja748 you mean Cyprus?

[@vladodobleja748]

@@esotericulmanist8331 yes

[@turingmachine4617]

thank for this informative video. It helps with trying to understand some of the many nuances of the current crisis.

[@JakeBroe]

This was a great video!

[@lemoonofthesky5771]

Why are there no comments? Btw first :)

[@ItzCollapsabLE]

The Constantinople circle looks like it has a mouth 🤣🤣

[@reichkommisariatukraine3165]

its a ball

[@Abshir1it1is]

OMG THAT WASN'T A MOUTH?! Shit, it isn't! It's a crown of some sort. I didn't notice!

[@etherospike3936]

In the beginning there was the word,...figure out where the word came from !

[@wasukoysiripong9738]

Aha, I thought it was a mouth until I saw your comment.

[@mimzim7141]

The ukrainian one is wearing a facemask

[@JimboPresi22]

You wanna hear an interesting and confusing fact, or actually, many? The autocephalous church of greece holds power over just half the land and about 6/10 of greek population. The island of crete is under the jurisdiction of the semi autonomous from the ecumenical patriarchate church of Crete with roughly 620k people; then the 5 metropolises of dodekanisos are directly under the jurisdiction of the patriarchate ( I don't know how many people). Then the metropolises of the new lands (northern and eastern Aegean, Thrace, Epirus, Macedonia and the area of elassona in thessaly) while belong to the patriarchate, are "on loan for the season" under the stewardship of the autocephalous church of greece. And then is the autonomous monastic state of Mount Athos. So if you think the situation over there in ukraine with the 2 churches, one russian backed and one constantinople backed is confusing, just think how little is greece in relation to the size and population of ukraine

[@titusflaviusvespasian5923]

The more I find out about the internal schisms of the "Orthodox" church, the more I see that it is proto-Protestantism. Rome was correct, before Vatican II, of the universal supremacy of the Pope over all churches in the world. And, as always, Rome is presented as demonic while in actuality they did a lot to create a dogmatic and societal hegemony throughout all Catholic countries. There are always Judases in the Church, but to throw the baby out with the bath water is insanity.

[@abehatzis8583]

Not really the same, although Constantinople, Greece, Cyprus are 3 separate Autocephalous Orthodox Churches, they are all pretty much aligned and united on all issues. Russia and Ukraine have been at war for years and Ukraine doesn't want its church controlled by Russia

[@villiamkarl-gustavlundberg5422]

Never heard about this before. Great vid.

[@MrJMB122]

I am in the oca

[@Goblinsharkhundredsofthem]

The two types of comments "It does not matter if your religious or not ,religion history is fascinating " "DEATH TO THE HERETIC!"

[@jeune_turc9404]

@Mohammed Khetran So did everyone who lived in a Medieval mindset

[@diegotapia2830]

purge the non catholic unbelivers

[@nazeerkhot3651]

@Mohammed Khetran they are atheists ya prick. So that means they are not using their values. So you are plain wrong.

[@patrick9876]

May we pray for the return of full communion between the two Patriarchates🙏🏻☦️

[@andreasm5770]

Amen! ✝️🙏🏻🕯️ Messages of unity are essential in my opinion while many from both sides are spreading hate to one another and criticising each other over minor issues that were not even the cause of the schism. May Orthodoxy rise again! ☦️☦️☦️

[@vanmars5718]

Or not....I rather see Catholics into our Greek churches than Russian arrogancy

[@richlopez4466]

Won't happen as long as dictator Putin is in control of Russia

[@patrick9876]

@@richlopez4466 that’s where prayer comes in.

[@gwan_git]

@@vanmars5718 that's the Christian spirit

[@eedobee]

Well, this flowered into relevance.

[@ImPedofinderGeneral]

it happens when you bring artillery to religious dispute

[@markusarseneault7358]

wonderful to see a youtuber final explore the political angle of the Schism, been wanting to see that since it started! Awesome work!

[@grigoriitorkel2485]

I was going to say the opposite - thank you for not making it seem like it is all just secular politics by including the historical background and emphasising that Constantinople and Moscow have not been very good friends for almost 600 years. 😄

[@Canonicisme]

It is not politics, it is God and Putin fighting against the wicked ! Sorry, i meant "Putin and God"

[@ghostapostle7225]

@@grigoriitorkel2485 Sorry, but it's obviously politcally motivated. It was almost the same kind of issue with the 15-16th century schism.

[@grigoriitorkel2485]

@@ghostapostle7225 I never said it was not. However, many western (and to some extent also eastern) commentators make it seem like it is exclusively secular politics. They completely ignore the historical and canonical context.

[@br.samuel4754]

@@Canonicisme it is the old joke. What said Putin before, standing for the throne of God...? Out of my way, that is my seat. Hahaha.

[@thanasisathan9090]

Technically the ancient patriarchs are five but the one in Rome is now the pope

[@user-bz9sj8mh5d]

There is also a pope in Alexandria.

[@riograndedosulball248]

The patriarchy of Rome is lowkey the "last man standing" among the ancient ones though

[@dewd9327]

@@riograndedosulball248 the other 4 still exist, they haven’t fallen apart

[@tobyroyparkerjr.233]

@@dewd9327 but under in muslim majority

[@enriquepenanieto4398]

I love your videos, please continue making them!

[@afanasymarinov2236]

Brilliant. Precise and easy to understand. Keep up the great work.

[@kxenia7852]

My mom works as a train conductor. And around 2013 , so before all this conflict, her train was driving through Ukraine and in one of the stops a Priest aproached her to ask for some water from the train. She asked what happened and the lady working at that train station said its been a week since he's been sleeping on that train station. I think this separation of russia/ukranian priests in ukraine has been going on long before tgis conflict

[@Omnigreen]

Great content! I'm really glad that I found your channel thanks to Kraut.

[@user-ju2bv9du4f]

First the schism between Rome and Constantinople, then schism between Constantinople and Moscow. What would Jesus Christ say to the Pope, the Patriarchs, the Metropolitans and the Archbishops?

[@budakbaongsiah]

Probably: "What in the name of God's Arse are you doing?"

[@dY5FUNCT10N4L]

"Anyone for more wine, oh by the way the churches, power structures and cult of personalities you've built are completely blasphemous." -jesus, when he gets back

[@jamesmartello1]

God would say what He has always said to His creatures, "Even as your fail, I Love you still."

[@eglistellez9185]

It’s all about power

[@kolontaialexis3567]

Facepalm

[@letnjiznoj]

The thing with the montengrin orthodox church is that like three people would attend it because three people want it

[@shecky3165]

All three of them being former communists, therefore current atheists...

[@user-wj7ro8hy5j]

@Горан Цеста Yeah but only on Cetinje, why, because they are hardcore Serbhaters and Montenegrins.

[@user-wj7ro8hy5j]

@Горан Цеста Propaganda, century of communism, Cetinje was one of the biggest supporter of communism, and what was Tito's policy, decentralisation and separatisation of Serbs because they were largest threat to Yugoslavia in his head and his advisors(Croats and Slovens) heads. To remind you that Cetinje is still great supporter of Liberals(First Montenegrin Nationalist) and Communism. This is reply for Cetinje and i never even said anything about Montenegrins and Serbs and you assumed that i am claiming that Montenegrins are Serbs.

[@namelesssurnameless4158]

Daily reminder that Montenegrins are Serbs.

[@dorinpopa6962]

@@user-wj7ro8hy5j same was done in the USSR. Large parts of today's Ukraine became part of Ukraine under Soviet rule and the ethnic makeup and identities weren't clear cut. Eastern and Southern Ukraine was mostly Russians and a whole plethora of immigrants invited by the Tsars from all over Russia and Europe. That's why those regions have minorities of Bulgarians, Greeks, and Germans. I'm not even talking about Jews who were the biggest minority. Western Ukraine was annexed only in the 20th century and it's nationalism was a lot more defined as it was in isolation from other Eastern Slavs and fighting for autonomy inside the Austrian empire first and then inside Poland. The modern Ukrainian is actually based on dialects from Western Ukraine and that basically decided what Ukrainian nationalism will look like. The Soviets had a policy of supporting movements of naturalisation of the population, encouraging identification to the nationality of the Republic one was living in. This way all the nationalities in modern Ukraine that was pieced together from different regions were told "you are now all Ukrainians". It was ok when the USSR with it's internationalism was around and it wasn't really important how you adhered to the principle of being Ukrainian. That's how we got a big on paper Ukrainian population that considers itself Ukrainian but understands it differently. But now after USSR's demise politicians jumped to exploit national identity in its search for power and influence polarizing people and driving them against eachother.

[@BiharyGabor]

8:45 Phyletism in orthodoxy does NOT mean the creation of autonomous and autocephalous churches. It means creating them based on ETHNICITY instead of delimiting canonical territories. Phyletism means there are at least four different orthodox churches in my home city (Budapest) while non-phyletism includes the idea of creating a single orthodox church in America, for example. Moscow has historically stood for non-phyletism declaring the whole Russian Empire its canonical territory. Orthodox churches on the Balkans tend to be rather phyletist - this is why we have so many orthodox churches present in Hungary. There is no Hungarian orthodox church but there are Romanian, Serb, Greek, Russian etc. orthodox christians in Hungary, more or less having their own churches here. The delimitation between Athens and Constantinople is a beautiful example of non-phyletism, anyway.

[@raphaelledesma9393]

I note that from a Roman Catholic perspective, this issue is kind of foreign. This may be due to historically the Papacy resisted attempts of nations to control the local Church seen especially in the Investiture Controversy and present in various forms historically afterwards. Ironically, what really helped the Popes finally centralize the Church in various nations is the rise of secularism. With the separation of Church and State, many nations finally stopped attempting to interfere with bishop appointments and allowed the Pope to dictate the policies of local churches. So although there are different customs in various nations, as a Catholic, it never feels far from home to stop by the local church and go to Mass.

[@Canonicisme]

There is only one ethnicity which is sacred, heavenly, angel-like and orthodox in this poor world, and it is the Russian ethnicity. As long as all true Christians in this world are Russians, there is no need of more than one Patriarchate in the world. If a single person converts to true Christianity, he will also embrace the Russian language and culture.

[@BiharyGabor]

@@Canonicisme O c'mon 😃

[@Canonicisme]

@@BiharyGabor And i can say what i said, because i am Italian and i have been Ukrainian Orthodox from 2004 to 2008 and then i converted to Hinduism in 2009 and i am still a Hindu now!

[@BiharyGabor]

@@Canonicisme Now it is clear. You are a person completely lost in confusion. I am sorry for you and hope you find something better in life than this.

[@tasoslts3480]

A very very important topic!! Thank you so much fir giving some clarifications!!

[@tudorgavrilita9900]

Good and quite qualitative information on a complex topic! Bravo 👏

[@gawkthimm6030]

fantastic vid, I knew some of that history, but you summarized and explained excellently

[@nou6150]

your videos are so good!!! I love them!! Make more!!!!

[@tiortedrootsky]

Dont overestimate importance of religion in Russia. Most people who call themselves christians in Russia havent read the bible, dont go to church, they are not part of real life community, that can gather and do something together. For them being christian is just a way to be part of abstract group of "normal" people, traditionalist, patriarchal.

[@greggrimer1428]

As it ever was. The bible was only printed and available in the early 1500s. Christianity dominated Europe and the Americas without the bible. Most people in the world could not even read until just over 100 years ago. There has never been a well catechised majority in any Christian nation in all of Christian history. Never been a real life community anywhere ever. But it does not matter if the movers and shakers in power are educated and committed as 80 percent will go along with it. 2 to 5 percent of very committed people can transform a nation as most people are sheep. They follow, they don't resist. Just look around you to see all the idiots wearing useless masks and taking experimental drugs for a virus that only old people are dying from.

[@deezeed2817]

When I went to Russia I saw a lot of young people going in and praying at church. The churches in western countries are dying massively.

[@realtalk6195]

@@snuurferalangur4357 That's not what he said. He was pointing out, correctly, that literacy is a very recent trend and that even the Bible wasn't mass printed until the 1500s. On top of that, Western Europeans didn't have access to Bibles in their own languages, it was Latin which nobody knew. In the East it was in Greek, Syriac, Arabic and Church Slavonic, etc so far more people actually understood it (if they were literate).

[@nazeerkhot3651]

@@greggrimer1428 your paragraph was so good why ruin it with anti masker bullshit.

[@gabrielgabriel5177]

If religion really would have that great importance in russia it would be lot more peaceful society without mafia. Now Russia has totally non christian fame all over the world. Orthodoxy is not about outward things like going to Church but after that ropping your neigbour.

[@nosnik6138]

Excellent video, excellent topic, excellent everything.

[@ausilliam]

Awesome topic! I wish and hope the fighting and disagreement ends with happiness for both 👏

[@juzernejm4308]

Happiness for both is impossible when one of them is Russia.

[@user-ou9qd9no5n]

As the person above said, if one of them is Russia, it will not end well for both.

[@IloveRumania]

The KZbin algorithm sure has a good sense of timing.

[@arrow1414]

More like analysis of what is being searched for.

[@alonsopochon3246]

Have been waiting a lot of time to truly understand this, thanks a lot! New sub

[@twoandahalfslavs]

This was really informative! Thanks!!

[@BirdEgg123]

Hi I'm your 500th subscriber!!

[@scott3017]

A couple things... 1) Protestantism is not a denomination. It is numerous denominations not in communion with each other. Nor do they share an overarching tradition that binds them. So Eastern Orthodoxy is the 2nd largest group in Christianity, followed by the Anglican Communion. 2) there is a semi-recognized American Patriarchate, but not everyone accepts it, making its status sort of like the Ukrainian one, but without the political overtones.

[@ranelgallardo7031]

Protestantism is basically an umbrella term for anyone that isn’t Catholic, Orthodox, Mormon.

[@ghrtfhfgdfnfg]

@@ranelgallardo7031 bro said Mormon 💀

[@emib6599]

@@ranelgallardo7031 i red Morons

[@SpencerLemay]

@@ranelgallardo7031 Mormons may as well be Muslims.

[@ranelgallardo7031]

@@SpencerLemay What?! Are you this high? They don’t worship Mohammad.

[@MoisesMartinez381]

Did not know this. Very informative good looking out.

[@davidcassens2426]

Excellent review, well done.

[@cherubin7th]

Moscow's patriarch want to replace the Constantinople patriarch as number one for a long time. Constantinople justified its place as the new Rome, to take the position from the Pope. But since Constantinople lost power under Islamic rule, Moscow sees itself as 3rd Rome.

[@Botosanipeople]

Oh yes, the romans were knowed yo be good Christians, and every Christian nation wants to be associated with that name

[@CantoniaCustoms]

So given how Russia is supposed to be the third Rome, and is considered "Holy, Catholic and Apostolic", doesn't it make it the Roman Catholic Church? Checkmate orthos

[@user-xh7wg6yn5o]

@@CantoniaCustoms Catholicism is a herecy of Orthodox church

[@DonPedroman]

Bullshit, Madrid is the Third Rome

[@user-xh7wg6yn5o]

@@DonPedroman Madrid is nothing, just a european village

[@RAYDENfilipp]

I am surprised how well-prepared and well-thought this material is. Great job!

[@ammazer1229]

This video needs a part 2 now.

[@MikeMaris]

Well this is probably going to change a lot now due to the invasive only time will tell. Great video and cant wait for more great future videos!

[@alessandro5770]

Nice video man

[@cbcluckyii4042]

The Carman music in the background is fitting. Lol

[@DTL0VER]

Great video!

[@Darkangelssimp]

Great video I’m surprised I’ve never heard about this before

[@queingofmusic330]

Great job, Politics with Paint. It was a very beautiful video from the visual side. But I'm slightly dissatisfied about the context. You didn't mention Kievan metropoly that was reestablished during the cossack times and regognized by Jerusalem's and Konstantinopole's patriarchs. Unfortunately, it was later integrated by force into the Moscow patriarchy in 1686 during the Ivan Samoylovych's rule over the Eastern Hetmanshchyna. In 1687 patriarchate of Constantinople recognize that action as illegal, Ukrainian church lost its independence until 2019.

[@tendum9139]

Until 1686 Kyivan Metropolis was independent from Moscow.

[@Boyar300AV]

There was no Kyivan Metropolis jist Kievan and he was subordinate to Poland. Patriarch of all Rus was situated in Vladimir since 12th century.

[@jelkrette1955]

Good video I hope you get more subscribers

[@AthanasiosJapan]

Very good presentation of a complicated issue. I hope for a settlement on good terms for all sides. Keep up the good job!

[@evanf111og]

one the cia plant that is the Patriarch of Constantinople passes on Russia and Constantinople will be together again

[@GeorgiosLeo]

The ancient Patriarchs were established in the 300s

[@MajdFreiji]

What absolutely not The ancient Patriarchies were established by the Apostles themselves, Peter and Paul for Antioch, for instance.

[@user-bz9sj8mh5d]

@Dharma Defender Yes, actually there is, such as in the writings of some of the early church fathers.

[@user-bz9sj8mh5d]

@Dharma Defender Wrong, most of the ones that matter are considered reliable, for many reasons.

[@Zekushiiido]

Good vid!

[@fyodor_ivanovich]

You kind of missed the fact there has been a Ukrainian Orthodox Church with a massive amount of power in the ROC. Istanbul came into Ukraine, found the schismatics, and made a new church- in the face of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.

[@SI-cd7xs]

Orthodox Church has always been a tool. This time the patriarch is being used by nato/us. Never forget while orthodox people were being slaughtered during then uprisings in the Balkans in the late 19th century the patriarch In Constantinople was telling them it’s a sin to fight against the sultan. 😂😂

[@lucieciepka1031]

The way you talk is so funny 😂 Istanbul came? What?! Where?! Those are political problems for the corrupt clergy. How does this affect you access to churches? Even if you can’t get in to a church, how does this prevent you from praying or being a good Christian? As long as you can worship freely, let the politics to the bishops.

[@cherubin7th]

@@SI-cd7xs Moscow's patriarch is power hungry and wants to become some kind of pope.

[@evanf111og]

yes because the Patriarch of Constantinople is a cia plant, after he passes there will be no support for the new uoc and then the minor schism will be undone

[@evanf111og]

@@cherubin7th lies

[@henryespinoza1913]

Thank you so much for this material. Very informative indeed. How about a similar video "Uniatism."

[@jackwisniewski3859]

awesome video

[@eleftheriosmas]

1)The ancient Patriarchates are not the "prestigious" ones. They are the ones established by an Ecumenical Council. The rest of them were established by decision of the one in whose the territory they belonged to curve this piece of land out of itself and grant it autocephaly. Thus they can always take it back. Especially in this case it was not even given to Moscow to have it as part of its lands but simply to run it while still belonging to the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

[@Bleakfacts]

No, it's not autocephaly if you can take it back.

[@anonymousbloke1]

Funny thing is the Moscow patriarchate was never really given a Tomos itself. Thus making its "autocephalous" status illegitimate

[@eleftheriosmas]

@@peepoclown1 No, that's not correct. I 've studied ecclesiastical law in law school. If you don't like hearing it from me find some other lawyer specialising in church law to explain it to you. All Churches except the Patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem (+Rome) and the Church of Cyprus have their autocephaly based on a Tomos issued by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (all of them except Georgia which i am not sure about it. It could be under Antioch) which granted them in the first place and can revoke them as well. Also in most of them there are a number of detailed provisions and obligations of the newly autonomous Church in order to keep its status. For example the Church of Greece has to abide to 12 provisions which include Patriarchical privileges, recognitions, exceptions etc etc.

[@AlexanderSergeevRus]

@@anonymousbloke1 Don't spread nonsense 'bout Tomos. The practice of issuing Tomos for autocephaly arose only in the 19th century.

[@AlexanderSergeevRus]

@@eleftheriosmas I beg your pardon, but I did not find a single source that would postulate the possibility of depriving the local Church of autocephaly.

[@tejdandekar]

That was really good!

[@dr0skaboney]

Awesome video man

[@bigbrownhouse6999]

I am a new convert to orthodoxy and found this very helpful

[@alovernighter]

For anyone who wonders why the numbers at 8:20 are not in favour of the pro-ukrainian side, here's an explainer: 1. Moscow does not simply has its church represented in Ukraine directly, but rather through a "subsidiary" called UOCMP "Ukrainian orthodox church of the Moscowy Patriarchy" - . It has its own leader ("metropolit"), who has significant autonomy within his actions and statements. (E.g. he was wise enough to take up pro-ukrainian side in the recent conflict). 2. Historically, the most densely populated regions of the country (i.e. where most population lives) were those close to the Russian border. After the fall of the USSR and the restoration of the orthodox religion almost all churches in the region joined UOCPM, because it had larger network => had more money for the restoration and construction of new churches. 3. Ukraine is a country with an aging population, where the majority IS the older generation (People 40-60 y.o.). It's true that church still plays some place in Ukrainian life, but that is relevant mostly with older generations (who are, at the moment, still a majority). Among my peers, people born after the fall of the USSR, almost NONE go to church, the majority are secular (agnostics or atheists). Therefore, the situation is likely to change very soon, I guess.

[@LancesArmorStriking]

Probably the same in russia, too. I don't think the Schism will change, but it will continue being used as a political tool by both, even if 5 people total still go to chuch))

[@TheLouisianan]

It's interesting that as an American I've never heard of this schism going on and I like to think I keep up with current events in the news. It seems that this issue was pretty obvious in Europe and considering this video was made in 2020 it shows that it was only a matter of time before this schism combined with other grudges would eventually turn into a war.

[@triadwarfare]

Unfortunately, Russians have been using their church as a tool to further their agenda in the war. This would harm their legitimacy further as the church no longer acts independently from the state.

[@iamothemakhnovist20]

very good video !

[@costaroumeliotis4639]

Loved both Russia and Ukraine from a Greek ☦️☦️☦️

[@ontheline3077]

That is mutual, filos)

[@LetsGoGetThem]

Nobody: Greeks when Orthodoxy is mentioned: * *rapid typing* *

[@ghostofathens6600]

@@LetsGoGetThem what can we say we created it after all

[@spymaster3366]

@@ghostofathens6600 actually no orthodox is the original Christianity because the pope ruled over ostrogoths Visigoths and other barabarian tribes

[@ddpmk355]

@@spymaster3366 The popes were Orthodox before 1054.

[@HaukeBass]

Interesting. A follow-up-video with respect to the war would be great. Have - for example - recently more people joined the ukrainian church and left the russian church in response to the russian aggression?

[@Itgetsbetterofficial]

I was wondering this exact thing.

[@andreasm5770]

Yes they have. Since the creation of the video, the OCU has grown from 45% to 75% of the Ukrainian Orthodox population. The UOC-MP has declined to around 5% (but do take the statistics with a grain of salt). Actually there have been whole parishes and even dioceses if I'm not mistaken migrating to the OCU. Also, update, the UOC-MP has also cut ties with Moscow since the war begun (but peacefully).

[@HaukeBass]

@@andreasm5770 thanks!

[@williamcurley9655]

This has a lot to do w what’s happening today. Good vid

[@Ussurin]

4:30 - I think it is important to recognize that while Polish-Lithuanian monarchy was catholic, Warsaw Confederacy made it a religiously free state where orthodox church was not opressed. Even more, later the PLC manged to mend the Great Schism locally and unite Polish section of catholic church and Ruthenian section of orthodox church. Orthodox priests accepted Pope as their patriarch with power to interpet Bible in scecial decrets and in return were granted freedom to fully uphold and continue all their other religious beliefs, traditions and rituals in Union of Lublin. This union stands till this day. Yes, there exists a catholic orthodox church in Europe. And catholics and orthodoxs can attend and partake in rituals with each other in each others churches without issue.

[@Ussurin]

6:47 - here it shows up again. Techncially there are 3 competing orthodox churches in Ukraine: Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church and Catholic Orthodox Church.

[@martinmortyry7444]

@@Ussurin It's called Greek Catholic Church, not Catholic Orthodox. Its relation to Pope by itself disqualifies it from the Orthodox club, even if they recognise other Patriarchs as their religious heads.

[@Ussurin]

@@martinmortyry7444 Well, we may call it differently in Polish. I would also say that while other Orthodox Churches may feel how you described, in our region we feel that it's mending of schism that unites both branches instead. We won't force others to recognize it and we are perfectly happy for it to be a local thing, but you cannot deny that when it comes to greater rejnification lessons from that mending surely woild be useful.

[@martinmortyry7444]

@@Ussurin dude, I'm Polish myself! And I've never heard anyone call Greco-Catholic Church "Kościół Katolicko-Prawosławny." Another thing is, this Church is rather minor in The Ukraine, about 10% of all the believers, most of them in the west. Still, of what I know, The Ukraine has the largest amount of Eastern Catholics in the world, so it might account for something.

[@wordart_guian]

@@Ussurin now the Russian one has left the russian church for good

[@Emre-tf8hp]

I live in constantinople. Ive never heard of this. Good video!

[@reigenlucilfer6154]

so are you a turk

[@Emre-tf8hp]

@@reigenlucilfer6154 yes.

[@reigenlucilfer6154]

@@Emre-tf8hp cool, why do you call it constantinople instead of istanbul

[@Emre-tf8hp]

@@reigenlucilfer6154 saying "istanbul" in an english sentence just sounds off to me

[@reigenlucilfer6154]

@@Emre-tf8hp i see, are you an atheist?

[@vlodko]

Thank you for your deep analysis of our problems with Russia...

[@NiceColorss]

This channel feels like a spiritual successor to brainforbreakfast, keep it up!

[@jabrilbalakrishna]

Great unbiased video at last is a sight to behold brothers

[@arcticflower7223]

I've been aware of the schism for two years but I did learn why people want to stop cutting down trees until last week. I thought the Byzantine church was basically cut in two now but now I understand it's more complex than that.

[@washikaafrozi1469]

It’s extremely new and odd to see a church schism in the 2010s.

[@greggrimer1428]

Wait for a year or three. You will see a major schism in the Roman Catholic Church. The Traditionalistd in there cannot abide Francis and his Marxist, Globalist. Freemasonic sympathies.

[@realtalk6195]

Not really. There's been countless schisms in the modern age, in different areas and churches, including within Eastern Orthodoxy. Mainstream media and int'l media just doesn't cover it because it's irrelevant to them.

[@nazeerkhot3651]

@@greggrimer1428 bruh you are quite the conspiracy theorist. Please go away and play with your measles.

[@HolyknightVader999]

@@greggrimer1428 The traditionalists already left. And it caused nothing but a small whimper.

[@vincentterraneo2176]

It happens more often then you think but people not interested in religion don't really pay attention to it. In Catholicism we have some radical traditionalists who are schismatic or semi schismatic and there's talks that the German Bishops might break into schism. Though none of it is as big as what the Orthodoxy is going through now Don't even get me started on the protestants. They're churches are braking apart and reuniting all the time

[@myronplatte8354]

The Patriarch of Constantinople does not have a special right to grant autocephaly, except to churches under his omophorion.

[@russianstuckinsideanameric8833]

Correct

[@sypherthe297th2]

Ok Vladimir. Nice assertion you got there. Pity it lacks any substantiation.

[@gtctv7000]

Nice video. I find it quite odd that you didn't at least mention the Oriental Orthodox Church

[@gdebouillon]

Thanks!

[@marsh2537]

I think that a lot of the orthodox Christians in Europe aligned with Constantinople will continue dialogue with the Catholics and improve relations with Rome slowly over time, while Moscow will be more and more isolated

[@ianmackenzie686]

Lol! "As long as I can drink booze" So funny...so true!

[@deb664]

Thank you.

[@renafielding945]

I am so interested in this.

[@stit6582]

❤️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️❤️ 🇷🇴 Love to all my Orthodox Brothers!

[@Tarik360]

That schism was unexpected but I feel like even though it's underreported, I did not know of this means a lot of people underestimated the significance, holy crap!

[@uamaz5615]

I am just curious where did you get the percentage of support for each church?

[@juzernejm4308]

It is wrong already, 43.9 % of Ukrainian Christians say they belong to the church of Ukraine, 15.2% - to the Ukrainian church of Russian Patriarchate, 38.4% don't belong to any of them, and 2.5% - "I don't know". socis.kiev.ua/ua/2019-01/#:~:text=%D0%94%D0%BE%20%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%97%20%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%20%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%97%20%D0%A6%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B8%20%D0%92%D0%B8%20%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B5%20%D0%B2i%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%3F

[@uamaz5615]

@@juzernejm4308 Дякую

[@houstonburnside8985]

I wish there were more videos on this.

[@Henrytorybot]

Finally, a bibliography, I take of my hat to you sir

[@Woloh]

Thank you for the correct pronouncing of the "Belarusians"

[@bandvitromaniaios1307]

*Blyetorussia*

[@Bersztipflag]

Good and reasonable background to this schism. (But why play Carmen in the background??).

[@meofamily4]

I am surprised that you omitted any mention of the Uniate Church.

[@imperatoraurelian8015]

I kind of feel like it should also be mentioned that the current Patriarch of the ROC is closely aligned with the current Russian government, so imo, even though Phyletism is a concern, Putin is also probably asking Kirill to pull strings. An independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church greatly reduces the chance that Russia could ever occupy it again. And we all know Putin gets a half chub at the thought of annexing Ukraine.

[@pop-n-rock]

correct

[@humanoidform7556]

Nah that just regular approach to orthodox christianity if they majority in a nation because their believer very conservative even Greece openly recognize Orthodoxy become national religion.

[@pop-n-rock]

@@humanoidform7556 that is NOT regular approach, Mr. Kirill is playing politics clearly for Russian imperialism. That does not happen in Greece lol which planet do you come from?

[@humanoidform7556]

@@pop-n-rock maybe yes in a regional context but for foreign relations of course not they are super neutral, the evidence was just look at the 2008 conflict between Georgia and Russia, Moscow patriarchet didn't recognize the Abkhazian Orthodox Church. About Greece this is from Wikipedia lists the countries that have state religions : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_religion About me i am just Australian with Belarusian and orthodox heritage who studying International relation

[@pop-n-rock]

@@humanoidform7556 Kirill made the video Byzantium, talking bad and antagonistically against the Greeks.Just go on and watch it and do not delete again my comment..

[@Tyranthunter1821]

I am a Greek and embrace all my Eastern Orthodox brothers and sisters. Enough of this! Very well done video.

[@boybutchpatriot3477]

Schism is disgusting for us No religious Ukrainian supported this

[@princesskenny7222]

Have you ever been to the ex-soviet states? Most of the people specially the Gen-Z are agnostic and atheists. They aren't buying religion at all.

[@PUARockstar]

​@@boybutchpatriot3477 I never supported the schism, but situation is rather more complicated that is seen from the outside

[@LetoxxIant]

great topic and explaination but a tip no background music - it was in some parts hard to understand you

[@77Catguy]

Given current hostilities with the Ukraine War, this is in need of a serious update...

[@unioneitaliana7107]

As a catholic (I know both services, ancient Latin and Modern in national language), I have no Problem with orthodox, they're my best Brothers, and I met also two bishops of the orthodox church, one was the archibishop of Montenegro, during a royalist convention in Rome (the Queen of Italy, Elena was from there). ✝️♥️☦️

[@order_truth_involvement6135]

Just one correction, it is the 2nd largest group, not 3rd. Protestantism cannot be considered a single group in any sense of the word.

[@ayanlethesomali7357]

6:14, is it the Greek-Orthodox Church of Alexandria or the Coptic Church in Alexandria that recognized Ukraine?

[@noel_xlk]

coptics are not eastern orthorox.

[@userspade4039]

curious to know the current state of affairs between the two countries, religiously.

[@themolerat9281]

I wonder what the two are fighting over now? Hope it's nothing Major!

[@jangar5000]

Hey saw your comment under kraut video about turkey , saw your vid and love it . But i have a question you said " The last Abbassid caliph resided in Cairo as a puppet to the Mameluks, not in Arabia. He was then taken to Constantinople and lived his life there, but its fairly certain that he never actually gave the title of caliph to the Ottoman Sultan Selim because that story only appeared about 200 years later." I searched but found nothing about it , can you give me source please ? Thanks in advance

[@PoliticswithPaint]

I remember reading that somewhere in the book "The Emergence of Modern Turkey" by Bernard Lewis. However, I don't remember where exactly and I don't own it anymore unfortunately. I tried to find a biography of Al-Mutawakkil III. in English online but couldn't find a proper one. Hope that helps a bit.

[@jangar5000]

Politics with Paint thanks gonna looks at it

[@klearkhoswashokani1797]

@@PoliticswithPaint bernard lewis fucking sucks, from someone from turkey

[@novrlpin5963]

Love it, you earn my subscribe

[@christopherellis2663]

Being in Timişoara 🇹🇩 where, Calvinists, Luthersns, Roman, and Byzantine Rite Catholics, Serbian and Romanian Orthodox Catholics, al, have a fine array of Cathedrals and Churches, along with some German Baptists who have been around for centuries.... and a synagogue and a mosque! Where it all comes together.

[@aenaon4111]

Today I learned: Chad and Romania have the same flag. An a Romainian on KZbin used the wrong one :)

[@theoremus]

Christopher, are the German Baptists called Huterrites (after Jacob Hutter), from anabaptist roots?

[@1000eau]

1054 2:electric boogaloo

[@nikolai1790]

Oh my goodness thank you for not simply saying Kyivan Rus was Russian history. It gave me goosebumps to hear you say it was the history of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. So refreshing to all these other history videos just simply calling it "Russian" history. You earned my sub

[@enderman_666]

TBH I see more salty Ukrainians claiming the Rus' to be solely Ukrainian and that it has nothing to do with modern Russia.

[@larslundandersen7722]

@@enderman_666 Maybe they go a little bit too far, because Russians have spent the last 200-300 years pretending that all Eastern Slavs were basically Russians. And have basically done everything they could to destroy their separate cultural identities. Eastern European Nationalism doesn't make good neighbours. And the worst version of Eastern European Nationalism is probably Russian Nationalism, followed narrowly by Serb Nationalism.

[@alekpoko2655]

@@larslundandersen7722This is idiotic, for the last 200-300 years there has been no Ukrainian or Belarusian nationality. These are Old Russian dialects. Their statehood and national significance they received literally by accident after the collapse of the Soviets

[@fastman9251]

@@alekpoko2655 you my friend are either a troll or extremely historically illiterate (although if you're from the West I can forgive you since Eastern Europe is a part of the world that Westerners have very little knowledge of, and the knowledge they have is very generalized).

[@OrkosUA]

@@alekpoko2655 Ukrainians and Belarusian were never russian dialects, but other east slavs equal to russians.

[@justiniansnow8919]

8:25 яeeeeeee LOL, I know why you didn't go with the Cyrillic "R sound", but still... PEEEEEEE!

[@theeternalklansmanmaestro5039]

Interessting, would like to see the same Fights in catholic and protestant churches, could help to fight the heresys in these two.