You're welcome, glad I can help. Yes, I forgot Father Spyridon and Brother Nathanael, they are great too and as a rule all true Orthodox clergy and lay theologians have a unified stance on the problems we're facing. We don't need a pope figure to inform us on the correct faith, rather Orthodoxy is all about the Church history and the teachings of the saints - whatever was true 2000 ago is true now because truth and goodness is eternal. There's no doctrine of progressive revelation of the faith and so on. That's why our liturgy, church architecture, ecclesiology and doctrines have remained unchanged throughout the time.
We should remember there was only one church in the first millennium and whoever sticks the most to what that Orthodox Catholic Early Church was like is in Christ. The Pope clearly is in apostasy and he's not the first one. The Orthodox church is not immune to such influences too and we have our fair share of heretical patriarchs (I'd say both Kirill and Bartholomew are compromised by worldly powers - this is most evidence in their stance on ecumenism and the mRNA). The difference is the Orthodox church doesn't hinge on the authority of the patriarchs like the Catholic doe on the infallibility of the Pope.
You're welcome, glad I can help. Yes, I forgot Father Spyridon and Brother Nathanael, they are great too and as a rule all true Orthodox clergy and lay theologians have a unified stance on the problems we're facing. We don't need a pope figure to inform us on the correct faith, rather Orthodoxy is all about the Church history and the teachings of the saints - whatever was true 2000 ago is true now because truth and goodness is eternal. There's no doctrine of progressive revelation of the faith and so on. That's why our liturgy, church architecture, ecclesiology and doctrines have remained unchanged throughout the time.
We should remember there was only one church in the first millennium and whoever sticks the most to what that Orthodox Catholic Early Church was like is in Christ. The Pope clearly is in apostasy and he's not the first one. The Orthodox church is not immune to such influences too and we have our fair share of heretical patriarchs (I'd say both Kirill and Bartholomew are compromised by worldly powers - this is most evidence in their stance on ecumenism and the mRNA). The difference is the Orthodox church doesn't hinge on the authority of the patriarchs like the Catholic doe on the infallibility of the Pope.