I didn't say the site was false, just that it covers up information. Like the facts that the emperor of Russia forcibly transplanted the Kiyvan Metropolitan to Russia, but that Constantinople refused to recognize that for a few hundred years, and it was still known as the Kyivan Metropolitanate. Eventually, the Russians in Moscow got together and appointed a Patriarch without the approval of Constantinople, under whose authority the Metropolitanate was. This Patriarchate was not officially recognized for another 500 years or so, when a Russian Patriarch was appointed by the assembly of the other Patriarchs. A few hundred years later, Patriarch Nikon of Moscow undertook extensive reforms to bring the Russian church into accord with the rest of Eastern Orthodoxy, as a result of which the Old Believers split off. The very fact that extensive reforms were necessary shows that traditions can indeed creep into the Church without extensive outrage, which is the impression I've gotten from people. All this was long before Communist times, so that fact really has no bearing.
As for my sources, I can find some online, but I'm really quoting from memory from various history books.
As for my sources, I can find some online, but I'm really quoting from memory from various history books.
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