The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church rejects the Patriarchate of Alexandria’s decision to defrock another Russian hierarch who has been active in Africa.
His Eminence Metropolitan Timotej of Debar and Kičevo commented on remarks from Professor Marjan Đurovski from the Security Institute of the Faculty of Philosophy, who claimed on Tuesday that MOC hierarchsare involved in espionage for non-Western intelligence services.
The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church strongly disagrees with the recent resolutions of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church concerning Ukraine and Moldova.
The Russian hierarchs refer to a decree from Patriarch St. Tikhon of 1920 that can be taken as a precedent for resolving such situations when the front line of a war or change of a state border cuts clergy and laity off from their hierarch.
Another hierarch of the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric is speaking out about the issue of his Church’s autocephaly.