Original sentence: Since 2002 there is considerable friction between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Vatican, when Patriarch Alexey II condemned the Vatican's creation of a Catholic diocesean structure for Russian territory.This point of view is based upon the stance of the Russian Orthodox Church (and all other Eastern Orthodox Churches) that the Church of Rome is but one of many equal Christian churches, and that as such, it is straying into the territory "belonging" to another co-equal church.This was seen by the leadership of the Russian church as a throwback to prior attempts by the Vatican to proselytize Russian Orthodox Church faithful to become Roman Catholic
Edited sentence: In 2002, there was considerable friction between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Vatican, when Patriarch Alexey II condemned the Vatican's creation of a Catholic diocesean structure for Russian territory.This point of view was based upon the Russian church's ancient view that the Church of Rome was but one of many equal Christian churches, and that as such, it was straying into the territory "belonging" to another co-equal church.This was seen by the leadership of the Russian church as a throwback to prior attempts by the Vatican to proselytize Russian Orthodox Church members to become Roman Catholic