Russian Orthodox Church Urges Constantinople To Apologize For Damage To World's Orthodoxy

The Russian Orthodox Church calls on Constantinople to apologize for the damage that its decision to grant independence to the Ukrainian non-canonical church has inflicted on the orthodoxy of Ukraine and the whole world, the spokesman for Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 22nd October, 2018) The Russian Orthodox Church calls on Constantinople to apologize for the damage that its decision to grant independence to the Ukrainian non-canonical church has inflicted on the orthodoxy of Ukraine and the whole world, the spokesman for Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill.

On October 8, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to completely "break the Eucharistic communion" with the Patriarchate of Constantinople after the latter launched preparations for granting autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.

"This path can be abandoned very quickly by dialogue. There is only one factor Constantinople's realization of the fallaciousness of its actions and decisions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and its Synod and apologies for those actions that have already caused significant damage to the orthodoxy of the world and the future of the orthodoxy in Ukraine," Alexander Volkov said.