Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus believes that by agreeing with the legalization of the OCU, Patriarch Theodore “transferred the Ukrainian problem to the Church of Alexandria and the “sensitive” African continent.”
The arguments of the bishop leads agapotonxristo.blogspot.com – Vladyka notes that the creation of the Patriarchal Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church “became a reason for identifying a problem” within the Alexandrian Church and a consequence of the recognition of the OCU.
Metropolitan Seraphim said that the majority of both believers and priests, as well as some bishops in the Alexandrian Patriarchate, were against the recognition of the OCU. But their position was ignored by Patriarch Theodore, who agreed with the “autocephaly” granted to the Ukrainian schismatics by the Phanar. His actions became the reason for the creation of the exarchate.
Vladyka backed up his words with a statement by Gregory, Metropolitan of Cameroon of the Church of Alexandria. He stated that the negative attitude of some metropolitans of the Patriarchate of Alexandria to the recognition of the OCU was the decisive factor in the creation of the Russian exarchate in Africa, writes life expectancy.
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