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The crisis that has arisen between the Russian Orthodox and Constantinople churches in connection with the situation in Ukraine will not lead to a final rupture between them, Patriarch Kirill is convinced. In his opinion, it will not come to the “point of no return”, RIA Novosti reports. “As long as the Church is alive, no “point of no return” should exist,” he noted. This is how the head of the Russian Orthodox Church commented on the question of the split of world Orthodoxy.
The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia called the word “crisis” correct for designation of what happened. He explained that in Greek it means "judgment."
“The judgment of God takes place over all of us. First and foremost, over those who initiate such crises,” the head of the Russian Church emphasized. One cannot resist the will of God, create schisms, preach one thing, and do the opposite, he summarized.
As Russkiy Mir reported, at the initiative of the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko and the Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew, the
unifying council was held in Kiev on December 15; it was attended mainly by representatives of schismatic church structures: the Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church. Patriarch Bartholomew handed over Tomos of autocephaly to the new structure on January 6.
Russian Orthodox Church, the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and most other Orthodox churches refused to recognize the "new church", considering its creation to be non-canonical.
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