tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post4656402860337253250..comments2024-03-22T11:37:52.668-05:00Comments on Byzantine, Texas: Michail Dandár elected archbishop of Czech LandsByzantine, TXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-4061391936922420572014-11-26T02:10:10.348-06:002014-11-26T02:10:10.348-06:00If the maneuvering behind all of this was to reduc...If the maneuvering behind all of this was to reduce Muscovite influence in Czechia, then it failed rather badly - Bishop-elect Michal, although Czech-speaking and born in Slovakia, was educated in the USSR and has long served in the Eparchy of Berlin of the Moscow Patriarchate.Jon Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17906335382429497204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-20487057401934137692014-11-25T12:34:24.658-06:002014-11-25T12:34:24.658-06:00I am not sure what this is all about. But it is my...I am not sure what this is all about. But it is my understanding that the Archbishop of Prague is under the authority of the primate The Archbishop of Presov who is the Metropolitan of the Czech and Slovak Church. That part hasn't changed. So is this a compromise?rhartschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02005412818602247908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-331801680933250272014-11-24T20:24:21.089-06:002014-11-24T20:24:21.089-06:00I have profound yet guarded respect for the Ecumen...I have profound yet guarded respect for the Ecumenical Patriarch, and quotes like this make me uncomfortable:<br />"...Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the head of the world Orthodox Church."<br /><br />Of course, he is the universal primate in the Orthodox Church, i.e., "first among equals", but clearly not in the same sense as a primate of an autocephalous Church functions as its first hierarch, and certainly not like the Roman Catholic Pope. Quotes like this are confusing & misleading, in my view.<br /><br />I haven't been following this so does anyone know if the decision to vote on a widely recognized bishop of Prague was an internal choice that the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands & Slovakia made on its own, or was it "forced" externally by Constantinople or Moscow?Timmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06833797224685670708noreply@blogger.com