Zam. the head of the Department for external Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, said the decision of the Cathedral of the Greek Orthodox Church regarding the non-canonical Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
"Despite the justified proposal of a number of metropolitans to refrain now from making a decision, the Council of bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church decided in favor of the recognition of the PCU, In this strange way expressing hope that the Ukrainian "autocephaly" will have the opportunity " to strengthen relations between the Autocephalous churches the great of Russia And Ukraine ". Evaluation of the consequences of that decision for the relations between the Russian Orthodox Church And the Greek Church will be developed by the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate, " said Balashov Last news .
However, he clarified that, in contrast of the Greek Orthodox Church, a jurisdiction which does not cover even the whole territory of Greece, the Russian Orthodox Church is a multinational Church And is not limited to the pastoral care of the faithful living in the territory of the Russian Federation.
"for example, tens of million of its members are residents of Ukraine. And about any of autocephaly, they were not asked " - said the head of the Department.
The so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine - non-canonical structure that is not recognized by the world Orthodoxy, was established by the end of 2018 at the initiative of the Ukrainian authorities And the Patriarchate of Constantinople by the merger of 2 of the schismatic churches. Received from Patriarch Bartholomew the Tomos " autocephaly ", in fact, the DNC was almost completely dependent on Constantinople. Up until now, no local Church has not recognized the new structure. The only canonical Church in Ukraine is Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
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