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| Volume 7 Number 11 - Tuesday, March 15th, 2005 |
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MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE REFUSES COMMENT ON CREATION OF CANONICAL STRUCTURES OF ROMANIAN PATRIARCHATE IN RUSSIA Portal-credo.ru, 9 March 2005 - The secretary of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow patriarchate for inter-Orthodox relations, Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, in effect refused on 9 March to comment for "Portal-credo.ru" on the establishment by the Romanian patriarchate of the Exarchate of New Lands and a Moscow deanery on Russian territory. From the point of view of the notion about "canonical territory" held by the Moscow patriarchate, the creation of such structures could be viewed as schismatic. As Fr Nikolai stated, "with regard to a question that touches upon relations between two local churches, if we are going to make public statements, then I will choose a different context and a different form." As reported earlier, in January and February of this year the Romanian patriarchate received into its jurisdiction several parishes on Russian territory, located in Moscow, Moscow province, and the Chuvash republic. The decree on creation of the Moscow deanery, which is headed by Archpresbyter Alexander Sergeev-Zarnadze, was signed by the head of the Bessarabian metropolia of the Romanian Orthodox church, Metropolitan Peter Peduraru, a former bishop of RPTsMP who was banned from the ministry by the Moscow patriarchate. The Bessarabian metropolia, which operates on the territory of the republic of Moldova, is also a schismatic structure on its "canonical territory," from the point of view of RPTsMP. (tr. by PDS, posted 9 March 2005)
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