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Further Fissures in Orthodox Communion Emerge

Press Office of the Polish Bishops’ ConferenceEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (r), the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, and Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, the head of the Catholic bishops’ conference of Poland, pray together during a meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw, Poland, on March 29.

COMMENTARY: That Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople would travel to Warsaw to stand alongside a Catholic bishop to call out the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is altogether remarkable.