. Russian Orthodox Church is ready to help if abolished by Constantinople, the Western European Exarchate of Russian parishes will be asked about the acceptance of its jurisdiction, But as long as no request has been made, said the head of the Department for external Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (DECR) Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk. He added that, according to him, " quite most parishes of this structure I wish to return to the capital Patriarchy ", as from the beginning of the Exarchate was part of the Russian Orthodox Church and only in the 1930-ies on a temporary basis became part of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. "But they are required to decide their own fate, it is their duty to be the decision whether they will stay in the Constantinople Patriarchate on the rights of ordinary parishes, which belongs to the Greek clergy and Liturgy in the Greek language, or do they still somehow try to save the structure, which existed, which exists, which has its own traditions, which, as they declare, the rules imposed by the local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church of 1917-1918 ", - noted the Hierarch. before the Synod of the Church of Constantinople decided to dissolve the Western European Exarchate of Russian parishes. In the return statement of the Council of the Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox churches in Western Europe it was said that the Archbishop Mariupolski John will continue to lead the Exarchate to the General Assembly of the Archdiocese, which is scheduled for February 23. ROC called the decision of Constantinople arbitrariness, noting that such actions are aimed at destroying Church unity and the existing structures. On the last working day of the week Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to establish a Patriarchal Exarchate of his parishes in Western Europe. in Kiev, December fifteen, at the initiative of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople was the " unification Council ", which was attended by mostly Competent non-canonical Church structures. Arrived only two bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, UOC, then banned them from serving. A summary of the events in Kiev was the election of the head of the new "Autocephalous churches" Epiphany Dumenko. in the Russian Orthodox Church called the canonical meaning of "Assembly" in Kiev is negligible, and the possibility of recognizing the Epiphany almost unworkable. The authorities of Ukraine hope in early Jan to from the Patriarchate of Constantinople "Tomos" of the autocephaly of the " newly formed structure. <span style="color:darkgray