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KYIV. December 29th UNN. At the meeting of its synod in Moscow, the Russian Orthodox Church decided to create its patriarchal exarchate on the canonical territory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate – in Western Europe and Southeast Asia. UNN Referring to Radio Liberty
The patriarchal exarchate in Western Europe having a center in Paris should be responsible for Andorra, Belgium, the United Kingdom, the 39, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco and The Netherlands, Portugal, France and Switzerland, and the patriarchal exarchate of Southeast Asia, whose center is located in Singapore – for Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines and Thailand.
In addition, the Russian Orthodox Church decided to create a diocese in Spain and Portugal. Ally with center in Madrid.
After the meeting, Metropolitan Ilarion, president of the synodal department of foreign relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, said that the Russian Orthodox Church "would create its parishes, its dioceses and its structures to" "Distant alien", without any reference to Constantinople.
"We have never accepted, and even more in the present circumstances, we can not accept that Constantinople has an exclusive right to the same. pastoral food of the diaspora, "he said.
According to him, the ROC will now" act "yes (19459003) ALSO READ: The expert explained why the Synod had dissolved the Exarchate of Russian churches in Europe [1945] 19659003] According to the former canons of the Orthodox Church, all countries do not have a local Orthodox Church and do not belong to to the traditional canonical territory of any of the orthodox churches The canonical localities belong to the canonical territory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The Russian Orthodox Church has long violated this rule, having its own structures in many countries of the world, but exarchate outside the traditionally "orthodox" countries, still not.
Among the other traditional privileges of the Ecumenical Patriarchate – granting autocephaly to new local churches (the Russian Church canonically self-proclaimed time, expected such a 141-year-old canonical confession) or to interpret the canon of the 39; church.
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In In the meantime, the ROC interprets these canons in their own way, claiming that the "non-canonical" creation of a single local autocephalous Orthodox church in Ukraine. The Russian Church also interrupted communication between churches and the Ecumenical Patriarchate, considered the mother church of all the Orthodox Churches of the world.
Remember that on December 15, at the Council of Unity in Kiev, it was decided to create a single local Orthodox Church in Kiev.
The Unity Council elected to head the unified UOC-MP metropolitan epiphonie.
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