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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\nIn his greeting speech to the participants in the International Conference on Monasticism and Today\u2019s World, which opened in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 28th<\/sup> November 2019, Metropolitan Nikiphoros of Kykkos and Tillyria (Orthodox Church of Cyprus) expressed his concern over the painful crisis that had arisen within the Orthodox Church because of the uncanonical decision of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople to recognize the schismatic church of Kiev and to grant it the so-called \u201cautocephaly\u201d in defiance of the unanimous canonical tradition and historical church practice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis tragedy of schism between the brethren beloved in the Lord threatens to split the body of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ,\u201d Metropolitan Nikiphoros said, as reported by the Information and Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church citing Romfea.gr.<\/p>\n
The hierarch of the Church of Cyprus stated with regret that the current developments \u201cresemble the threshold of the Great Schism of 1054, which divided Ecumenical Christianity into Western Catholics and Eastern Orthodox. The schism threatens Ecumenical Orthodoxy after the Primates of the Churches of Alexandria and Greece joined the Ecumenical Patriarch\u2019s decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not permissible for anyone, and especially for us Orthodox monks, who are the first defenders of our Church, to remain indifferent to the dramatic situation in which our Orthodoxy has found itself. We all need to translate our passive anxiety into active responsibility. We must prayerfully invoke the mercy of God and the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, so that the Primates of the Local Orthodox Churches, with all-embracing love and humble and sacrificial thoughts, may listen to the voice of the Lord, overcome impermissible egoism, obsessions, and mania for power, and begin a fraternal pan-Orthodox dialogue aimed at overcoming the present crisis threatening the unity of Orthodoxy,\u201d Metropolitan Nikiphoros also said.<\/p>\n
Having reminded all those present at the conference that \u201cthe sin of schism is incurable and inexcusable,\u201d Metropolitan Nikiphoros of Kykkos and Tillyria added: \u201cOnly if the principle of conciliarity, on which the Orthodox Church has always relied, will work, can a way out of today’s situation be found,\u201d website of the Russian Orthodox Church\u2019s Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism reports.<\/p>\n
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