>>740804
>>not getting over your collective autism and accepting both Churches are valid
If listening to your bishops is being an autist, I'll be the most autistic man in the world then. If obedience to your spiritual father is a sin, call me guilty and unrepentant.
>and that even the Assyrian Church of the East has been found to not have Nestorianism like everyone thinks and that we have essentially patched up all the holes between the Catholics, Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Assyrian Church of the East but no one wants to accept that because as the recent Ukraine situation in the Orthodox Church and the recent situation with the Catholic Church in Brazil prove we are far too focused on politics and "muh land"
The Vatican has had dialogue with the Nestorians, Monophysites, and Lutherans. The Orthodox have had dialogue with the Monophysites and the Catholics. That's all that has happened so far. You're delusional if you think any issues have been patched up yet - unless you think that anathemas have been lifted, in which case you're misinformed.
As for the 8th ecumenical council, several prophetic saints have said that a so-called 8th council will be put together, to unite the various heresies and force the faithful Orthodox into apostasy, and we must never follow it.
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What more do we need? What about in regards to Saints? The Roman Catholic Church canonizing Saint Sergius of Radozveh and Saint Seraphim Sarov, or the Eastern Orthodox Church canonizing Saint Stephen of Hungary? How about both of these Churches canonizing the Ethiopian Saints Tekle Haymanot and Saint Kaleb of Axum? How about the fact that we also venerate ACOE Saints collectively such as Saint Isaac the Syrian and Saint Aba I?
I don't know where you get your falsehood from but there is not one canonized Orthodox saint who was not Orthodox at the time of their death.
>Let us remember too that even now the excommunications between the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and even the Assyrian Church of the East have all been lifted in the last 100 years. The anathemas by the Eastern Orthodox on Oriental Orthodox Saints have also been lifted.
… No, they have not. The only actual steps toward unity in the past century have been 1) the Oriental Churches getting together in the 60's to re-recognize their mutual faith and become the Oriental Orthodox Church, ad 2) the mutual excommunications of 1054 being lifted also in the 60's. In the case of the latter, this does not affect the repeated mutual anathemas that have occured and reoccured for centuries after that, most especially after the council of Florence.
I too wish for the schisms and heresies to be destroyed, OP. But we're much, much, much earlier in the process than you seem to think we are. Nothing concrete has taken place since the 60's except for unofficial dialogues (like the Eastern & Oriental Orthodox dialogues in the late 90's), official dialogues that did not end with concrete actions or even general approval (like the Ravenna and Chieti Catholic-Orthodox international commissions), or power moves that ended up being stopped (like Archbishop Elias Zoghby's stuff in the 90's). Excommunications against important people (such as Pope Dioscorus and Severus) have yet to be lifted. Anathemas against doctrines have yet to be lifted. Reasons to even lift these anathemas to begin with have yet to be found concerning such things as papal supremacy for instance. Realistically, I expect the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Chuches to reunite in 150-200 years, and the Catholic and Assyrian Churches to reunite in 50-100 years, and the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches to reunite in maybe 400-500 years at least. These things work slow even with the information age.
>>740808
>How about the fact that John Wesley, founder of the Methodist church, actually went to an Orthodox Bishop to be ordained so that he would be considered part of Apostolic Succession as he tried to revitalize and reform the Anglican Church?
That's just a legend and not a very likely one.