ROC Laity Not To Be Allowed To Take Communion In Constantinople's Churches - Hilarion

Parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) will not be allowed to take communion in churches of the Constantinople Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, said Monday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 15th October, 2018) Parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) will not be allowed to take communion in churches of the Constantinople Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, said Monday.

Metropolitan Hilarion was commenting on the ROC Synod's decision to suspend full communion with the Constantinople Patriarchate.

"In practical terms, this decision means that we will not be able to perform joint divine services with the Patriarchate of Constantinople, our bishops and priests will not be able to participate in celebrating liturgy jointly with the hierarchs and priests of the Constantinople Patriarchate, and lay people will not be able to take communion in churches of the Patriarchate of Constantinople," he said.