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Originally Posted by Romeo Rovagnati
She was Catholic and she didn't found the Russian Orthodox Church. As i said before, that church was originally part of the Greek Orthodox Church, but the Tsar turned it into an ethnic Church.
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I see. But were there any Tsars (other than the Caesars) when Olga arrived with her priest? Since if he was a [Roman] catholic and not her husband presumably his interests did not extend to female humans, in contravention of Scripture——unless he were a eunuch——raising a further question that if from these the Kievan Rus emerged, where did the Rus come from? If they were Vikings for example or simple Danes or Norse or something peregrinating broadly before settling down in the 10th century or whenever it was, how could either of them have started out catholics? Unless she just picked him up along the way. The orthodox hierarchy I'd heard doesn't preclude marriage (perhaps you could confirm this from a Romish perspective?) and so that particular evil wouldn't be inevitable; they'd still have been evil though but I can't see how you'd get from a popish priest to an orthodox patriarch. The other way, starting off as Italian Orthodox and mutating across to heretic, well just about any claptrap could be added on.
Unless of course the pontiffs never had anything to do with Jesus in the first place. It's all very confusing.