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Ukrainian church conflict has a dogmatic dimension

The Constantinople model of primacy provides for the obligatory presence in the universal Church of the first hierarch with special powers. However, our Church fundamentally rejects such an understanding of primacy, seeing in it an obvious threat to the so-called. Eastern papism, said Bishop Sylvester of Belogorodsk, rector of the Kiev Theological Academy and Seminary, in his speech at the congress of monastics in the Pochaev Lavra, writes Pravblog.

Consequently, the Ukrainian church conflict has not only a political and canonical, but also a dogmatic dimension. Doctrine dimension.

“Today we are faced with two very different interpretations of the structure of the Orthodox Church. The settlement of the church conflict in Ukraine is closely linked with theological polemics on the primacy in the Orthodox Church, ”he said.

Earlier, the hierarch noted that at the heart of the crisis in world Orthodoxy lies the issue of primacy in the universal Church.

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