{"id":74395,"date":"2018-10-17T16:15:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74395"},"modified":"2018-10-17T19:52:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T23:52:26","slug":"guardian-russian-orthodox-church-cuts-ties-with-constantinople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74395","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Russian Orthodox Church cuts ties with Constantinople"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Orthodox Church has announced it will break off relations with the Patriarchate of Constantinople in a religious schism driven by political friction between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church elected on Monday to cut ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, which is viewed as the leading authority for the world\u2019s 300 million Orthodox worshippers.<\/p>\n<p>The split is a show of force by Russia after a Ukrainian church was granted independence.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the \u201cfirst among equals\u201d of eastern Orthodox clerics, granted autocephaly (independence) to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which previously answered to Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/15\/russian-orthodox-church-cuts-ties-with-constantinople\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Orthodox Church has announced it will break off relations with the Patriarchate of Constantinople in a religious schism driven by political friction between Russia and Ukraine. The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church elected on Monday to cut<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74395\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,479,453,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-church","category-russia","category-turkey","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74397,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74395\/revisions\/74397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}