Moscow calls for a complete break with Constantinople
The Patriarchate of Constantinople ceased to exist as the Orthodox Church, having legalized Ukrainian schismatics bypassing the Russian Church.
Religious observer Mikhail Tyurenkov stated this on air on the Tsargrad TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We crossed the red line. All. The Patriarchate of Constantinople, as an Orthodox Church, no longer exists,” he said.
According to Tyurenkov, Constantinople, given the tiny number of real parishioners in Turkey, does not have the right to dictate its will to the largest Church - the Russian.
“We, the Russian Orthodox Church, remain the Orthodox Church and the most influential, the largest in the number of dioceses, in the number of clergy, in the number of bishops, in influence in the world, we now in no way should be liberal, in no case should we play into diplomacy and express another note of protest,” says the religious observer.
The general director of the Katehon analytical center, Mikhail Yakushev, shares the same opinion.
“Now we see that he is easily ready to provide the non-canonical church, in a thieves’ way, in violation of all canons and decrees of all Ecumenical Councils, which suggests that now Constantinople, as the Orthodox Church, has indeed fallen away from Orthodoxy, and we cannot have no relationship,” Yakushev said.
Moscow calls for a complete break with Constantinople.