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Just so long as we have a Pontiff that has a vision for bringing back the faithful, denouncing secular societies, and the encourage growth and evangelizing the church, then we will have done our job to help bring the Church back from times such as these.

You seem not to include in your calculations the very central fact that no one man can do all you are hoping. It doesn't matter who he is. The pope can no more evangelize the world than Obama can pay your mortgage.

Just imagine the fine iconostasis that will be installed at the High Altar in St. Peter' shortly after the installation of Sviatoslav as pope. He will assume the name Gregory.

I was hoping he was going to be Pope Basil, but St. Gregory the Theologian, St. John Chrysostom, St. Gregory the Theologian, they all work.

As I said elsewhere, quoting Archimandrite Robert Taft, "What we’ve made out of the papacy is simply ridiculous. There’s no possible justification in the New Testament or anyplace else for what we’ve made out of the papacy."

Oops, replace one of those St. Gregory the Theologians with St. Basil the Great. Seems like I must have had fatigue in the last post, sorry.

Wouldn't that be an intentional intermixing of traditions?

Also, is there historical precedence for patriarchs to be elevated or elected to other patriarchal sees? (Especially to a church outside their own ritual tradition?)