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ROCOR: Constantinople invades foreign territory and threatens Orthodoxy unity

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ROCOR: Constantinople invades foreign territory and threatens Orthodoxy unity


10.10.2018

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Constantinople has rudely invaded foreign territory, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) declares. The ROCOR called upon to confront the evil that threatens the canonical Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Interfax news agency reports.

Sending their envoys to the canonical territory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Patriarchate of Constantinople made an unprecedented invasion on the territory with its own local church responsible for the Orthodox believers in this country.

The ROCOR called these actions a serious threat to the unity of Orthodoxy and appealed to the Orthodox world to resist the evil that surrounded the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Note, the Head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) invited the primates of all local churches to discuss the situation in Ukraine one week ago. Patriarch Kirill sent them messages describing the state of affairs around the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It also outlines the ROC position on autocephaly. The head of the Russian Church listed all the consequences from Constantinople actions. It may negatively affect the unity of the universal Orthodoxy.

Earlier the ROC Synod has already offered to start a pan-Orthodox discussion of the actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople which sent its representatives to Ukraine to prepare it for the autocephaly.

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