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The ROC accepted the Crimean dioceses of the UOC

On June 7, 2022, by the decision of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, after considering the reports of Metropolitan Platon of Feodosia and Kerch, Metropolitan Lazar of Simferopol and Crimea, Bishop Alexy of Dzhankoy and Razdolnensky regarding the status of the dioceses entrusted to them, three Crimean dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church were admitted to the ROC.

As noted in the Journal of the Synod No. 59, “the diocesan bishops of the Dzhankoy, Simferopol and Feodosia dioceses appealed to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and the Holy Synod with a request to transfer the dioceses entrusted to them to the direct jurisdiction of His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Churches. The Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church granted diocesan bishops “the right to independently make decisions on certain issues of diocesan life that fall within the competence of the Holy Synod or the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, with subsequent, when the opportunity is restored, informing the hierarchy” (paragraph 7 of the Resolution of the Council).

… Based on the need to maintain an effective canonical and administrative connection with the central church authorities for the prosperous flow of church life in the dioceses ministered by the aforementioned His Grace, given the practical impossibility of regular communication between these dioceses and the Kyiv Metropolis, the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to accept the Dzhankoy, Simferopol and Feodosiya eparchies into direct canonical and administrative subordination to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

It was also decided to form the Crimean Metropolis on the territory of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, as part of the Dzhankoy, Simferopol and Feodosia dioceses, and to appoint His Grace Metropolitan Lazar of Simferopol and Crimea as the head of the Crimean Metropolis.

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