Spokesman of UOC KP: Phanar rejects pan-orthodox discussion of Tomos issue

Spokesman of UOC KP Yevstratiy Zoria

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch has rejected the ROC’s idea to initiate a pan-Orthodox discussion on the Tomos issue, Yevstratiy Zoria, a spokesman of the schismatic “Kiev Patriarchate”, wrote on his personal Twitter page.

“The Moscow Patriarchate is trying to prevent the provision of the Tomos by proposing to move the issue to a discussion at a meeting of the heads of the Local Churches—with the hope of delaying the matter,” Zoria said. “The Ecumenical Patriarch, the Church of Greece, and the Bulgarian Patriarchate have already rejected the MP’s initiative.” 

Zoria also added that the meeting of all heads of the Local Churches on the Ukrainian issue will certainly occur in the future, but with the participation of the Primate of the Local Autocephalous UOC, after the implementation of the Tomos.

As the UOJ reported, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia wrote to all the primates of the world’s 15 Local Orthodox Churches last week to inform them about the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and to propose opening a pan-Orthodox discussion on the matter. As a follow-up, His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland and the Holy Synod of the Antiochian Orthodox Church have called for Pat. Bartholomew to convene a pan-Orthodox Council to work the issue out together.

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