The removal of the Patriarch of Moscow Cyril from his pastoral duties asked the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew the Ukrainian Orthodox Church according to TASS.
“The head of the ‘schismatic’ Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Epiphanios (Dumenko), said on Thursday that the church had asked Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople to ‘hold the title’ of ecumenical patriarch, and that the heads of the local “Russian Patriarch Kirill, accusing him of heresy,” reports the Russian agency TASS.
“The Council of Bishops of the OCU (Ukrainian Orthodox Church) has appealed to the Ecumenical Patriarch and the leaders of the local churches to condemn the intellectual crimes of Cyril Gudyayev, and to deprive him of his office due to the spread of heretical ethnocentrism “TASS clarifies” teachings about the ‘Russian world’ and the spread of the schism among the Orthodox, “he said on Twitter.
According to the Russian agency, “a similar accusation of ethno-racism was made by the Patriarchate of Constantinople against the Bulgarian Orthodox Church for its decision to declare self-determination by the Church of Constantinople during the country’s struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire. century. The Church of Constantinople in its local council in 1872 condemned ethnocentrism as a sect.
TASS notes that the Ukrainian church received self-determination from the Patriarch of Constantinople, but the Russian Orthodox Church and the (adjacent to Russia) “Ukrainian Orthodox Church” do not recognize the normal status of the new religious organization.
Moscow Patriarch Kirill at this historic moment should stand up to the circumstances and resign in protest of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, stressed to ERT Patriarch Bartholomew.
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