You can't run a proper airline unless you have passengers. You're heading to bankruptcy.
To proclaim a large scale unity without the knowledge most are with you is to proclaim a lie. Unity alone is a contradiction.
Unity of heart and mind is a good thing -the patriarch should make sure to achieve that with his own people first.
Patriarch Bartholomew, my patriarch, has, to the grief of everyone on all sides of the matter, already become involved in one major split; running headlong into another is at least a sign of not being actually unifying rather than being genuinely unifying.
You're not really "ecumenical " if you're not "unified" with the hearts and minds of the oecumene/οἰκουμένη at large -you're factionalizing, A factional patriarch would not be an ecumenical one in substance and truth but in name only. A sort of anti-patriarch.
In 1964, Pope Paul VI stressed that unity cannot be bought at the expense of truth, and that “compromise is in contradiction with God who is Truth.” Division if grounded in differences in good faith and conscience with respect to the truth he understood was a virtue, not a lack of charity. Having been first shown a unity of truth, and having further seen a unity of our own people, I will, in that case with everyone arm in arm beside me), be on this unity like a hobo on a ham sandwich, But even a hungry hobo wants to see what's in the sandwich before he eats it; he doesn't want your mystery meat.