Russian Orthodox Church: Patriarch Constantinople fulfills an order from the Ocean to dismember the Church in Russia
The head of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Ilarion, said that the Patriarch Bartholomew, Constantinople, fulfills the order from the Ocean to dismember the Russian Orthodox Church. “The last steps and decisions of Patriarch Bartholomew, including the signing of today's agreement, are outside the canonical field, and are exclusively in the political plane,” said Metropolitan Hilarion.