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On the 15th<\/sup> of November 2018, the Bishops\u2019 Council of the Polish Orthodox Church discussed the situation which had arisen due to the recent developments in the ecclesiastical life in Ukraine.<\/p>\n As was reported earlier, on the 11th<\/sup> of October the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople made a decision to \u201creinstate to their hierarchical or priestly rank\u201d the leaders of the Ukrainian schism and their followers and to \u201crestore to communion with the Church\u201d their faithful, and confirmed its intention to \u201cproceed to the granting of Autocephaly to the Church of Ukraine.\u201d Moreover, in defiance of the canonical norms that regulate the life of the Orthodox Church, the Patriarchate of Constantinople announced the establishment of its \u201cStavropegion\u201d in Kiev, in the territory of another Church, and the annulment of the document on the transfer of the Kiev Metropolia to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate, issued more than 300 years ago. For that reason, on the 15th<\/sup> of October the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church acknowledged the impossibility to continue the Eucharistic communion with Constantinople. And on the 13th<\/sup> of November the Council of Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church adopted the Resolution which reads: \u201cWe consider inadmissible the unlawful interference of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the internal affairs of another Local Church and the attempts to resolve the Ukrainian ecclesiastical issue with the involvement of state authorities and schismatics, while ignoring the voice of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.\u201d<\/p>\n Taking in consideration the common concern of the Local Churches over the unstable ecclesiastical situation in Ukraine that has a destructive impact on the life of the whole Orthodoxy, the Bishops\u2019 Council of the Polish Orthodox Church once again called for the convening of the Synaxis of Primates of the Orthodox Churches, \u201cso that they might together, in the spirit of evangelical love, in humility and in one mind, preserving the dogmatic and canonical teaching and in mutual respect peacefully settle the issue of divided Orthodoxy in the Ukrainian land.\u201d<\/p>\n As the Council stated, the defrocked bishops and priests cannot be leaders in settling the ecclesiastical situation in Ukraine. \u201cTheir actions cause even greater confusion and discords,\u201d the communiqu\u00e9 issued by the Polish Orthodox Church reads.<\/p>\n According to the decision of the Bishops\u2019 Council, priests of the Polish Orthodox Church \u201care banned from entering into liturgical and prayerful communion with the \u2018clergy\u2019 of the so-called Kievan Patriarchate and the so-called Autocephalous Orthodox church, which have done much evil in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n As is known, on the 7th<\/sup> of November the Bishops\u2019 Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church also expressed its position concerning the actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Ukraine. As it is pointed out in the issued document, the Council of the Serbian Church does not recognize the leaders of the schismatic groups, Philaret Denisenko and Makariy Maletich, and their followers as Orthodox bishops and clerics and \u201ctherefore does not accept the liturgical and canonical communion with them and their supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n DECR Communication Service<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the 15th of November 2018, the Bishops\u2019 Council of the Polish Orthodox Church discussed the situation which had arisen due to the recent developments in the ecclesiastical life in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":166739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,114,9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166738"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}