No Orthodox Church supports Bartholomew, the Patriarch of Constantinople, who granted “autocephaly” to a small schismatic Orthodox group in Ukraine - Metropolitan Hilarion of the Moscow Patriarchat told RT.
This decision led to a suspension of the communion between Constantinople and Moscow.
Hilarion does not exclude that this break may last for centuries.
Ukrainian Church is not Russian
Hilarion points out that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church which was and remains in communion with Moscow, is “not the Russian Church.”
“The only link that exists between the Ukrainian Church and the Moscow Patriarchate is the liturgical commemoration of the Patriarch,” he adds.
Alexandria occupies first place
Now, the Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, occupies the first place like in the fifth century when the heretical Constantinople Patriarch was opposed by Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria - Hilarion explains. The first place in Orthodoxy “is not something like the primacy of the Pope in the Catholic Church …More