Evgeny Abdullayev
And it was not until God heard the voice of Rachel, weeping for her children, that He said, “For thee, Rachel, for thy tears and the sorrows thou hast endured, I shall return the exiled children to their motherland.”
Pavel Darovsky
The “Patriarchal Ecumenical Throne” of Constantinople is declared as the head of the Church, and not the Lord Jesus Christ, who is merely called the “Founder” of the Church. This carries already not only canonical, but also critical dogmatic significance.
This document, in actuality, begins a new era of “nominal autocephaly,” in which the number and qualities of the rights of supposedly independent autocephalic Churches are greater than those of autonomous Churches.
Matthew Slavko
His thoughts and prophecies hit many—the government, thinkers, liberals, the intelligentsia, journalists, and mainly, the clergy. Fr. John’s speeches were always combined with very high and inexorable demands first of all upon himself, and this is why his words can be trusted.
Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus
And that is why the Church of Cyprus will never back down from its position that we have repeatedly articulated to you, that is, that it will support the position of the Russian Orthodox Church on the issue of the so-called autocephaly in Ukraine with all its might.