the constantinople patriarchate is determined to proceed it just dispatched you know it's an invoice to ukraine to prepare for the granting of autocephaly and i wonder if you could lead us through this process i wonder if there is any task that the church needs to pass in order to be recognized and in this particular case since we're dealing with different communities religious communities i mean are they supposed to be united first or the constantinople patriarchate is going to issue this really just license and do the church building later in order for the church to become autocephalous it should receive a special document in which is this out of self really is proclaimed and is recognized now the canonical orthodox church in the ukraine did not ask for such a tours and even if it is given such a document it will not accept it. the promise of how to safely can not be addressed to whom it may concern it is always addressed to a particular person who is in charge of a persecutor church so before granting of this thomas of. they need to find a person who will be considerate of the chu

when the kid of constantinople supported schism within the russian orthodox church and they see from history is that the patriarch of constantinople very often treat this relationship in this way when there was the russian orthodox church finds itself in a difficult situation instead of helping the church which one may expect from someone who pretends to be a coordinator of the interoffice that succeed it is so instead of helping. he does the sins which actually destroy the unity between the churches in the statement that the russian orthodox church issued in response to the consent of decision lately it's used a very strong i would even say very irreverent language it's adjusted. the patriarch indeed wants to be as you say the orthodox spoke and that it will have to answer before god in history for this decision does the russian orthodox church recognise the ecumenical status of constantinople and if so does this reckon recognition dependent on the political decisions that. the leader of the current leader of consenting double takes we do not recognise in the primacy of jurisdiction. we recognise the primacy of

months that's what we usually call politics it's only applied today really just fear now the constantinople patriarchate is determined to proceed it just dispatched you know it's an invoice to ukraine to prepare for the granting of a subtle and i wonder if you could lead us through this process i wonder if there is any task that the church needs to pass in order to be recognized and in this particular case since we're dealing with different communities religious communities i mean are they supposed to be united first or the constantinople arcade is going to issue this really just license and do the church building later in order for the church to become outer surface should receive a special document in which is this out of self really proclaimed and is recognized now as the canonical orthodox church in the ukraine did not ask for such a tours and even if it is given such a document it will not accept it. the promise of how to cephalic and not be addressed to whom it may concern it is always addressed to a particular person who is in charge of a persecutor church so before a grand sings this thomas of o

hundred million strong global orthodox community may soon be forced to take sides as the patriarch eats at constantinople and moscow wrangle over the fate of baseball in your brain because it already has been a point of no return to discuss that i'm now in joined by metropolitan hilarion how to foreign relations at the russian orthodox church here an answer it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time just a few days ago constantinople petrarch an ounce in pretty stark terms its decision to eventually ground the sufferer to the ukrainian church whatever it might be real discuss it now and i say to the ukrainian church keeping in mind that it is public primarily a political process but because of the or the politicians the state that lobbied for that what do you make of this very tight association between state and religious affairs first of all i think they should explain what it means because not everyone would understand how to set for the course of the tradition means independence the orthodox church unlike the roman catholic church consists all fully independent local churches they are