At a General meeting of the dioceses of the Archdiocese of Minsk was adopted the final document, according to which Authorized the Belarusian Orthodox Church (BOC) have plans to Ask the Patriarch of all Russia Kirill on granting it the status of self-governing Church.
" To ask the Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavsky Paul, Patriarchal Exarch of all Belarus to petition his Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill and the Holy Synod of the provision of the Belarusian Orthodox Church the status of self-governing Churches of the Moscow Patriarchate on the model of Latvia, Moldova and Estonia ", - reported in the final document, the text of which is posted on the Internet the office of the Belarusian Orthodox Church. Belarusian Priest Alexander Shramko on his Facebook page said that " the granting of autocephaly and autonomy in fact currently frozen and not used ". He emphasizes that the ROC has developed four levels of independence: " 1. UOC special Tomos, by which the independence even more than autonomy. 2. Self-Governing Church. 3. The Belarusian Exarchate. 4. The Metropolitan district (Kazakhstan, Central Asia) ". The priest said, the story is about the transition from the 3rd level to the second. Self-governing Church is a term introduced in the normative documents of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1990-that is, Denotes its large territorial-canonical unit with a special status, but which is not an Autonomous Church. Self-governing of Moscow Patriarchate are: Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian ( " Self-governing with broad autonomy " ), as well as the Orthodox Church of Moldova and the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia (ROCOR).


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