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The nearest Synod will determine the form of the ROC’s presence in Africa, – Metropolitan Hilarion

Several dozen priests of the Alexandrian Patriarchate turned to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia with a request to accept their parishes into the Russian Orthodox Church. This was stated by the Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk, the website of the DECR ROC writes.

“The fact is that when the Patriarch of Alexandria joined the Patriarch of Constantinople and recognized the schismatic structure in Ukraine as the“ Orthodox Church, ”commemorating its leader during the divine service, this caused an internal split in the Alexandrian Church, which was to be expected. A number of priests, who did not agree with this commemoration and with the recognition of the schism, turned to us, namely to Patriarch Kirill, with a request to accept them into the Russian Orthodox Church.

We, nevertheless, took a break, because we still hoped that this decision of the Patriarch of Alexandria was not irreversible, that he would change his mind and revise it, ”the hierarch said.

However, in August of this year, Patriarch Theodore and Patriarch Bartholomew performed a divine service on the island of Imvros, in which the leader of the Ukrainian schismatics Epiphany Dumenko took part. “From the point of view of church canons, if a hierarch concelebrates with a schismatic, he himself falls into schism. Unfortunately, church canons do not give us any other interpretation. And now, after this concelebration took place and Patriarch Theodore finally identified himself with the schism, we have no grounds and no opportunity to refuse such appeals, ”said Metropolitan Hilarion.

“How we will consider them, how long they will be considered and how our presence in Africa will be structured – we have yet to decide all this at the next meetings of the Holy Synod,” he added.

Earlier in Tanzania, the bishop expelled priests who supported canonical Orthodoxy from parishes.

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