The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church adopted a conclusion about the full Eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople, said the head of the Department for external Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk.

"It was a forced decision, But a decision could take our Holy Synod, as this led the whole logic of the recent actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople ",
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