care real who's presiding over the largest and the wealthiest orthodox congregation and pay chart bartholomew who oversees a relatively small parish in a predominantly muslim country and yet claims a commanding call or global powers do you indeed think there is a power contest going on between the two no i do not think so but i see from history i referred to the one nine hundred twenty s. when the kit of constantinople supported schism was in the russian orthodox church and they see from history is that the patriarch of constantinople very often treat this relationship in this way when there was the russian orthodox church finds itself in a difficult situation instead of killed in the church which one may expect from someone who pretends to be. of the into or so that succeed it is so instead of helping he does the sins which actually destroy the unity between the churches in the statement that the russian orthodox church issued in response to the decision lately it used a very strong i would even say very irreverent language it's adjusted. the patriarch indeed wants to be as you say the ortho