How Putin Is Using The Orthodox Church To Build His Power (HBO)

[Saint Furrybutt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfdxA9z0STI

[Clovis]

The reason the equivalent to kings were called 'Tsars' is actually because of the Greek Orthodox Church, or more accurately, the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire church. They used the last part of 'Caesar' for inspiration. I mention this because Putin, at this point, feels no different from a Tsar.

[Saint Furrybutt]

I already know that Eastern Orthodoxy and Byzantine Empire is. But for Russian history part is kinda new for me.

But I think it's more makes calling Eastern Orthodoxy as Byzantine [Greek] Orthodoxy as contrast to call Roman [Latin] Catholicism for oblivious historical reason.

[Clovis]

I *think* I understand what you meant in that second paragraph, but the following may not be a sufficient answer if I misunderstood.

The Great Schism was when the Catholic and Orthodox churches split, and I think that was during the Eastern Roman Empire days, but I could be wrong there, so I think either nomenclature is correct.

[skoinks]

The title "tsar" was first used by Simeon I of the First Bulgarian Empire in 913; Funnily enough, the last person to hold the title was Simeon II in 1946 at the tail end of WWII. It was also used by the Serbian kingdom, as you well know, by the Russian tsardom. You're correct that the word comes from "Caesar". The religious connotation has been for a long time, the word being used to describe the biblical kings in Greek religious texts. Back then, "tsar" was equivalent to "emperor" or "king" ("kral" in the Slavic world), though with the adoption of the title by the Orthodox world, the meaning has been split to its own entity, with the word "emperor" existing as a separate one in most Slavic languages, ditto for "king".

Just thought you might find that interesting.

[Saint Furrybutt]

Yea, But for very last part of your response that true if we calling Catholicism as Italian Catholic Church but it would also call as Vatican Catholic Church well Pope have its own small City-state within Italian Capital.