Constantinople refused pan-Orthodox discussion of the Ukrainian theme
The Patriarchate of Constantinople did not want to make the pan-Orthodox level of the Ukrainian Church question, was reported by the Patriarch Bartholomew at the proper letter of the Patriarch of Antioch John. The text of the document posted on the Internet representation of the Russian Orthodox Church.
prior to convening the pan-Orthodox meeting called the Synod of the Patriarchate of Antioch, Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland Savva, the hierarchs of the Serbian, Albanian and Bulgarian churches. ROC also supported a similar idea: Patriarch Kirill sent a letter to all primates of the local churches, which showed the feasibility of a pan-Orthodox discussion of the Ukrainian question.
Patriarch Bartholomew called such event is useless.
"afterward, when four Orthodox Churches, with ecclesiastical and theological point of view without a reason, did not want to be present in the case of the Holy Ecumenical Council, so there is no excuse, and Your ancient Church was one of them, the Ecumenical Patriarchate has a good reason to refrain from such meetings ", - reported in a letter to the Patriarch of Constantinople.
for reviews of Patriarch Bartholomew, the participants " agree only in the fact that will disagree with each other ".
"New Church" of Ukraine was formed on the "unification Council" in Kiev at the beginning of winter last year as a result of merging 2 non-canonical Church structures existing in Ukraine. ROC called the value of "Assembly" in Kiev is negligible, and the possibility of recognition of the head of the "new Church" of Ukraine Epiphanios other local churches almost unworkable.
in early January gave Kyiv the Tomos of autocephaly, strongly limiting the rights of the "new Church" and putting it in a dependent position from Constantinople. In ROC the day, signing Thomas called tragic in the history of the Ecumenical Orthodoxy.
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