orthodox family among catholics . just a week ago we discussed the events around the macedonian church. and er, this week the news came that at the meeting of the synod of the russian orthodox church, they considered the appeal of the metropolitan and the lithuanian innocent, and the provision of the diocese of the russian orthodox church that from the self-governing church and at the same time the lithuanian authorities are turning to patriarch bartholomew with a request to restore the jurisdiction of constantinople there, if it weren’t for a special military operation on the territory of ukraine, would lithuania take this step as a result of these events or was it somehow warmed up earlier for this? first of all, i would like to respond to your remarks that there are no schisms among catholics. in fact , there were many splits in the history of the catholic church, and the main such split was the emergence of protestantism in the 16th century, and the protestant movement first swept part of europe, and then spread all over the world today. uh, there are several hundred million protesta