Met Athanasios: I took position on OCU that my conscience dictated
The bishop of the Cypriot Orthodox Church reminded of his attitude to the "Ukrainian issue" during an online talk with the clergy of the Tver Metropolis of the ROC.
The hierarch of the Cypriot Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol, said during an online pastoral seminar for the clergy of the Tver Metropolis of the ROC that with regard to the OCU he took the position that his conscience tells him to, reports “Orthodox Upper Volga”.
The conference, which took place on March 22, was attended by bishops and more than a hundred clergy and monastics from the Tver, Bezhetsk and Rzhev eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Metropolitan Athanasios answered a number of questions that relate to the prayer and liturgical life of the Church, missionary, youth and pastoral ministry, spiritual and family issues in the life of a clergyman, etc.
Also, the hierarch of the Cypriot Church was asked about the situation in Ukraine, to which he replied that he had taken the position that his conscience tells him to take and which agrees with the canons of the Holy Church.
Earlier Metropolitan Athanasios, along with other bishops of the Cypriot Orthodox Church, opposed the remembrance of Sergei (Epiphany) Dumenko by Archbishop Chrysostomos.
As reported, the Metropolitan of Limassol expressed his love and support for the persecuted communities of the UOC, urging the believers to remain faithful to the canonical Church headed by His Beatitude Onuphry.
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