Stadenwick wrote:Tracian Empire wrote:Most likely. The Christian Orthodox people are some of the most conservative Christians, your heresy would need to convince people really well in order for them to join you.
Pretty sure being the main church of Russian Orthodoxy in Moscow and doing this for 5 years or more, considering how the Tsar created the Russian Orthodoxy helps, but that's just my opinion you know. Maybe not so much of Third Rome yet, as "wait a minute why would a king lead a religion instead you know, the Priest?" for now. As well the thought that Constantinople is kinda corrupt, greedy, flashy...all that kind of stuff that make both peasants and bourgeois thinking.
The Russian Orthodox Church itself was for a long time, a junior metropolitanate of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. So firstly, from the original Russian Orthodox Church, there was a split as the Russian Tsar formed his own schismatic church, and then there comes your heresy.
As for the rest, it's debatable. The Emperor does indeed have a great power, but he doesn't control the Church itself. In the Orthodox Church, everything is democratic. But as the Viceroy of Christ, the Emperor does have a great authority. However to the common people, the Patriarchs are the big leaders, so from that point of view, it's still unlikely that your heresy would turn many people against the Ecumenical Patriarch, outside of Russia which is a special snowflake.
Then yes, it could work to say that Constantinople is corrupt, greedy, and flashy, especially in Russia. But your influence will stop at the borders of the Empire
My citizens probably have more rights than many of the Russian nobles.