Metropolitan of Belarus against borders in the Russian Orthodox world
Belarus does not need to create an autocephalous Orthodox Church.
Metropolitan Pavel of Minsk and Zaslavsky stated this in an interview with the Belarusian TV channel STV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“You know, I often talk about my meeting with Metropolitan Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz. I asked him: “Vladyka, do you also want to proclaim the autocephaly of the Catholic Church in Belarus?”
He answered: “No, no, no!” I say: “For some reason everyone is telling us: the Orthodox Church must proclaim autocephaly in Belarus.”
Today in Belarus there is no need to do this, any transformations, especially administrative ones, transformations in canon law. Let us live in peace and harmony,” said Bishop Pavel.
He believes that religious reforms are being tried to be imposed by politicians who want to divide people.
“We do not associate ourselves with any modern political or temporal boundaries. We are members of the Russian Orthodox Church.
And she was baptized in 988, so we are already in the second millennium. And God grant that we will always be united, live in peace and harmony,” the Metropolitan proclaimed.
Let us recall that the anti-Russian Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church is the name of several non-canonical religious organizations that have declared themselves to be the autocephalous (that is, independent) church of Belarus and the Belarusian diaspora. Since 1944 - in exile. It is not officially registered in Belarus, but has several parishes.
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