Stuart, Do you hate the Orthodox?

Although His Beatitude Patriarch Ignatius IV is Peter and his successor in his apostolic see, we do have recourse to higher authority when he, or his/our Holy Synod or any one of his/our bishops err, as their judgements are subject to revison and appeal to superior authority. Last I noticed/checked, i.e. last Sunday, the situatuion was status quo ante that disgraceful nonsense, rather papal (in the Pastor Aeternus, not Alexandrine, sense) and certainly foreign to Orthodox ecclesiology.

Can you quote those "official representatives of the MP"? And can you explain what the Patriarch of Moscow says means more to you than your supreme pontiff, who refers to your Major-Archbishop Sviatoslav as Major-Archbishop?

Judging from what others say about me, it would appear I hate everybody. Just call me Timon of Athens.

There is Byzantinization / Constantiopolization - which is what occurred when the Semitic Churches rejected Chalcedon.

Judging from what others say about me, it would appear I hate everybody. Just call me Timon of Athens.

I'm with those who believe the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church should take a play out of the Orthodox book and "just do it". As Father Taft suggested some time back, the normal manner in which a patriarchate is elevated in the Orthodox communion is for a particular Church to announce unilaterally its patriarchal status. Some Orthodox Churches welcome the new patriarchate, others shun it, but eventually (after half a century or so) they all accept the new status quo.

The UGCC should, therefore, formally announce that it is now the Greek Catholic Patriarchal Church of Kyiv, led by His Beatitude Patriarch Sviatoslav. It should change its letterhead and its website to reflect its new status, and it should stop accepting mail addressed to the "Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halich": "Returned to Sender--No Such Person at This Address. It should cease answering phone calls requesting the Major Archbishop. It should not respond to e-mails or tweets so addressed, either. The Orthodox will howl. Rome will howl. In the end, all will accede because that's just how life is. There comes a time in the life of a Church when it has risen to a level of prominence which justifies patriarchal status. If other Churches, for political reasons, refuse to recognize this, then that Church is within its rights to claim what is its own.

Can you quote those "official representatives of the MP"?

And can you explain what the Patriarch of Moscow says means more to you than your supreme pontiff, who refers to your Major-Archbishop Sviatoslav as Major-Archbishop?

Seriously though, everyone within the UGCC do refer to him as the Patriarch. In our Liturgies he is commemorated as the Patriarch. What more can we do?

Something binding on the entire Catholic Communion.

Something binding on the entire Catholic Communion.

According to their beliefs, that is beyond their compentance, authority and power.

Constantine's question/answer was "what more can WE do". Since communion with Rome is not injured, as he said, we do nothing except what we are doing, and that is the particular realization of +Sviatoslav as our Patriarch. Rome never approved Jerusalem, Constantinople, Antioch or Alexandria to be raised to the status of Patriarchates, each continued in the growth and development of each particular church until it was recognized within that particular Church.

I'm not sure what you mean "binding on the entire Catholic Communion". Generally that specifically refers to dogmatic issues requiring the intervention of Rome, not discliplinary matters of title.

According to their beliefs, that is beyond their compentance, authority and power.