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The Russian Orthodox Church continues to be celebrated with frightening decisions through the creation of a United Orthodox Church in Ukraine and its support for the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Thus, on December 28, the Synod of the DRC decided to form its patriarchal exarchate in Western Europe and Southeast Asia.
According to the press secretary of Patriarch Kirill, priest Alexander Volkov reportedly told Interfax the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe with a center in Paris, including the following countries in the field of the pastoral responsibility of this exarchate: Andorra, Belgium, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, France, Switzerland
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spokesman for the Patriarch said that if ROC responds to the actions of Constantinople in Ukraine. In addition, the clergyman added that the ROC had also decided to form a patriarchal exarchate in Asia and stressed that it would have had significant success.
"Due to the considerable successes of the Russian Orthodox Church's mission in Asia, expressed by an increase in the number of temples and the emergence of clergy among the local population, the increased interest in Russian orthodoxy, as well as the increase of the Russian-speaking population residing permanently or temporarily in these countries and regions, a patriarchal exarchate in East Asia with center in Singapore, "he added.
In particular, in Asia, the following countries should enter the field of pastoral responsibility for exarchate: Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, DPRK, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines and Thailand
Recall that on December 20, the Verkhovna Rada supported a bill to rename the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate as a Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Previously, as part of the Council of Unity in Kiev, which had resulted in the formation of a single Orthodox Church in Ukraine, representatives of the former Moscow Patriarchate convened an extraordinary meeting of the Synod during which they decided that "two non-canonical structures" would be united in the cathedral. "The Ukrainian Orthodox Church does not make any decisions regarding this rally."
How to create the United Local Church in Ukraine? On October 9, the three-day session of the Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate began in Istanbul. On October 10, at this meeting, the clergy heard a report from the messengers of Patriarch Bartholomew (exarchs) who had spent nearly a month in Ukraine. In particular, compatriots visited Ukrainian churches to talk with priests. According to the results of their report, Ukraine approved the establishment of a single local church
On December 15, during the Unity Council, the Orthodox bishops announced the unification of Ukrainian churches into one independent and independent church. His official name looks like this: Ukrainian National Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Pereyaslavsky and Bila Tserkva Epiphanes became the primate of the unified local Orthodox Church. His candidacy was supported by the majority of bishops at the Unity Council in Kiev. The Cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine will be the Mikhailovsky Cathedral with gold dome and not the Kiev Cathedral, as previously stated.
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