The influential Russian Orthodox Church on Monday evening announced that it was cutting ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, according to the TASS news agency, confirming the Moscow-based Church's extreme displeasure with recognition, by the latter, of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
The influential Russian Orthodox Church on Monday evening announced that it was cutting ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, according to the TASS news agency, confirming the Moscow-based Church's extreme displeasure with recognition, by the latter, of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
According to a spokesman for the Russian Church, Metropolitan Ilarion, the holy synod of the former had "no other choice but to break relations with the Patriarchate of Constantinople," using a portion of the Patriarchate's official title, with omitting the "Ecumenical".