{"id":165294,"date":"2018-10-16T08:59:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T05:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=165294"},"modified":"2018-11-28T19:17:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T16:17:58","slug":"%d0%bc%d0%b8%d1%82%d1%80%d0%be%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%b8%d1%82-%d0%b8%d0%bb%d0%b0%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%be%d0%bd-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%bd%d1%8f%d1%82%d1%8b%d0%b5-%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bd%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2018\/10\/16\/news165294\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Hilarion: Decisions taken by Constantinople run contrary to canonical Tradition of the Orthodox Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

On October 15 in the interview to the \u201cBig Game\u2019 program on the channel 1, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, spoke about the decisions of the Holy Synod on the uncanonical actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople which has entered into communion with schismatics in Ukraine and encroached upon the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Statement of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church published on the results of the session held in Minsk says: \u201cTo admit into communion schismatics and a person anathematized in other Local Church with all the \u2018bishops\u2019 and \u2018clergy\u2019 consecrated by him, the encroachment on somebody else\u2019s canonical regions, the attempt to abandon its own historical decisions and commitments \u2013 all this leads the Patriarchate of Constantinople beyond the canonical space and, to our great grief, makes it impossible for us to continue the Eucharistic community with its hierarch, clergy and laity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Metropolitan Hilarion explained that in compliance with the decision the clergymen of the Russian Orthodox Church will not concelebrate divine services with the clerics of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the laypersons will not be able to take Holy communion in churches under its jurisdiction. The archpastor said: \u201cThis will certainly raise the question of pastoral care for many Russian believers living in places with no churches of the Russian Orthodox Church, but with churches of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, to which they will not be able to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

As to the response of the other Orthodox Churches to the decision taken today, the DECR chairman noted: \u201cI do not want to make any forecast, but I can say that as yet no one Local Church has supported actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. These actions can be characterized only as robber\u2019s actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Metropolitan Hilarion added that history knows Ecumenical Councils, Local Councils, but also councils which were called robber councils. \u2018It was exactly the robber\u2019s gathering held several days ago in Constantinople. Its decisions run contrary to the canonical Tradition of the Orthodox Church,\u201d Metropolitan Hilarion underscored having in mind the results of the session of the Patriarchate of Constantinople Synod made public on 11 October 2018:\u201cToday our Synod responded to them, in particular to the decision to revoke the Synodal Act of 1686, according to which the Kievan Metropolia had become a part of the Moscow Patriarchate. First, this Act cannot be revoked, and, secondly, the church canons do not stipulate changes of canonical boundaries if at least thirty years passed since their establishment, while in this case over three hundred years have passed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Metropolitan Hilarion also said that the Statement of the Holy Synod of October 15 says that canonical boundaries of the present Ukrainian Orthodox Church do not coincide with the boundaries of the Kievan Metropolia of 1686, which was several times smaller.<\/p>\n

Besides, he added, the lifting of anathema from Filaret (Denisenko), leader of the Ukrainian schism, is unlawful, because this anathema was not imposed by Constantinople, and can be lifted only by the Russian Orthodox Church. \u201cThe Patriarchate of Constantinople has no right to accept appeals from other Local Churches though it is preaching it in the newly invented teaching. We have clearly declared this in our Statement having cited opinions of the authoritative Byzantine canonists.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On October 15 in the interview to the \u201cBig Game\u2019 program on the channel 1, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, spoke about the decisions of the Holy Synod on the uncanonical actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople which has entered into communion with schismatics in Ukraine and encroached upon the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":165308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,115,9,1,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}