Patriarch of Constantinople recognized as schismatic by Russian Orthodox Church

The head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, said today that Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople was automatically recognized by the Russian Orthodox Church as a schismatic due to his recognition of the autocephaly of Ukrainian schismatics.

“By the fact that the Patriarch of Constantinople recognized the schismatics, he himself joined the schism. So are the church canons. Accordingly, for us now the Patriarch of Constantinople is a schismatic, ” he explained Russia-24 channel.