I'm thinking of a timeline where through a French victory in the Seven Years War, Prussia gets smashed as a major power and France acquires the Austrian Netherlands, which gives it the finances to survive the revolution. I am imagining an extremely strong French-Russian royal alliance going into the 19th Century.
What I would like to ask is, if its possible for the French and Russian monarchies to want to merge the Catholic and Orthodox churches in order to have a single religious front against the Ungodly English? I imagine there would be some sort of ideological fudge where the Bishop of Rome is "the first among equals", but on other matters something could be worked out. The Pope wouldn't be happy, but I was hoping to have him under the thumb of the French monarchy.
What I would like to ask is, if its possible for the French and Russian monarchies to want to merge the Catholic and Orthodox churches in order to have a single religious front against the Ungodly English? I imagine there would be some sort of ideological fudge where the Bishop of Rome is "the first among equals", but on other matters something could be worked out. The Pope wouldn't be happy, but I was hoping to have him under the thumb of the French monarchy.