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| Volume 7 Number 36 - Tuesday, September 6th, 2005 |
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Budapest, August 26, Interfax - The Supreme Court of the Hungarian Republic ruled that the Budapest Cathedral of the Assumption claimed by the Patriarchate of Constantinople would stay under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church. The case was taken to court in 2001 by the Patriarchate of Constantinople with the aim to transfer the Cathedral of the Assumption to the jurisdiction of the Hungarian Exarchate established by Constantinople in 1995. However, the plaintiff did not manage to produce the required documents, the official site of the Russian Church reports Friday.
The Cathedral of the Assumption was built at the
end of the 15th century and belonged to the
jurisdiction of the Serbian bishop of Buda till
the mid-20th century. On the repeated requests
of the parishioners the church moved to the
Moscow Patriarchate jurisdiction in 1950 as the
cathedral church by the decision of the church
authorities, and now this status will be
preserved by the decision of the secular
authorities of Hungary.
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