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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubomyr_Husar
His Eminent Beatitude
  • Lubomyr Husar
  • Любомир Гузар
Cardinal, Major Archbishop Emeritus of Kiev-Galicia


Lubomyr Husar MSU (Ukrainian: Любомир Гузар, Liubomyr Huzar; born 26 February 1933) is the major archbishop emeritus of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, a minority church in Ukraine but the largest sui juris Eastern church in full communion with the Holy See. He is also a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.
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Cardinal Husar was one of the three Eastern Catholics to participate in the papal conclave, 2005, the others being Ignace Daoud of the Syrian Catholic Church and Varkey Vithayathil of the Syro-Malabar Church. (Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir and Stéphanos II Ghattas of the Maronite Church and Coptic Catholic Church respectively were both over 80 and therefore could not take part.) At that papal conclave, he was one of the cardinals considered papabile, something unusual for an Eastern Catholic...
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On 26 February 2013, 2 days before the announced resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Husar turned 80 and lost his right to participate in a conclave.
So, what if His Eminent Beatitude Lubomyr Husar had become Pope -- either in 2005 or sometime before 2013 (assuming here that Pope Benedict XVI abdicates a bit earlier than he did OTL)?

How would this impact the relations between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox churches?
What are some policies Pope Husar might pursue?
How would this impact global politics?
What if he still pope during something like the OTL Ukraine Crisis? OTL, Patriarch Filaret (the head of the Kiev Patriarchate Ukrainian Orthodox Church) has officially announced that Putin is a "modern-day incarnation of Cain" and is "governed by Satan" -- what would be the fallout if the pope were to say something along those lines?
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