Bartholomew continues to remember Kirill at prayer services and has not broken with the Russian Orthodox Church
The Archdiocese of Orthodox Russian Churches in Western Europe (Exarchate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate) stated that Constantinople did not stop communicating with the Moscow Patriarchate, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was reported on the archdiocese website.
“We inform you that the Ecumenical Patriarchate has not interrupted communication with the Moscow Patriarchate and continues to commemorate it in the manner established in the diptych,” the statement says.
“All Orthodox believers can take full part in liturgical life and church sacraments in our parishes,” the exarchate added.
They also called for prayer for the unity of Orthodoxy.
Let us recall that on October 15, the Russian Orthodox Church severed relations with the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The reason was that the Synod of Constantinople confirmed its intention to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church and lifted anathemas from the leaders of two non-canonical Ukrainian religious communities - the “Kyiv Patriarchate” (UOC-KP) and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC).