The Metropolitan urged the Thessalonians to pray “for all those who are in arms fighting on the Eastern front against godless Bolshevism, and this gives us an opportunity to freely confess the Orthodox faith. Metropolitan of Florina Basil had expressed “deep gratitude to all civilized humanity to the leader of the German Reich.”
Metropolitan Irenaeus of Chalcis was called for God’s blessing on the German weapons. The Church of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Berlin from 1941 to 1945, every evening, prayers were served for the “deliverance of Russia from the godless power.”
So did a lot of Buddhists in the Himalayas and elsewhere. Hitler flew in hundreds of Buddhists to Berlin in covert flights to preserve their religious texts and practices
No, i want my new monarchy coronated by bishops who are rightful subjects OF the king, NOT above or parallel to the king and i want it NOW **cough** Charlemagne **cough** Pope Leo the Who Care'th **cough** Francocratia **cough**
But no seriously, its time, Europa is ready. We have the technology, we can rebuild the monarchy.
In some sense bishops must be beyond secular government. When it appoints clergy, as happened in Russia and other states (Napoleon tried and failed to enact this in France), the result is disaster.
No no, i don't mean that bishops are appointed by the king. I mean that the bishops, whose appointment is a matter for (of?) the church, ought to be considered regular subjects of the crown.
That is the difference between Gallicism, or the unity of church and state during the time of king Clovis (Chlodwig), and later times under Papism etc.
These are not my original thoughts, i got this position from here but it needs translation. I do concur with it: https://www.deutsch-orthodox.de/kleine-geschichte-des-orthodoxen-frankreichs/
I'd say this falls firmly under "God's to God, Caesar's to Caesar". The church shouldn't solely and authoratively play king-maker and the state or crown shouldn't groom and install clergy.