Patriarch Bartholomeos only heads a limited segment of Orthodoxy which has increasingly been modernized/corrupted under his leadership. He apes Pope Francis as much as he possibly can, emphasizing the environment and "social justice." Traditionally, when an Orthodox priest loses his wife, either by death or desertion, he typically is tonsured a monk. If the priest (or deacon) insists on re-marrying he is then first laicized. This latest aberration of Bartholomeos is not the practice for the rest of Orthodoxy (i.e., Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria, etc.) and once it is generally reported there will be protests.