Constantinople threatens to take away independence from the Russian Church
The Russian Orthodox Church may be deprived of autocephaly if it does not recognize the primacy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in particular its decision to grant autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was announced by Doctor of Theology, Archbishop Job (Gecha) of Telmis in an interview with BBC Ukraine. “We hope that the Orthodox Church of Russia will come to reason and return to unity...