The Moldovan clergy consider it impossible for themselves to be a church with the patriarch, who blesses his priests to pray for the victory of the Russian army against Ukraine.
A meeting of priests will be held in Moldova on Thursday, November 16, where they will discuss the proposal to break away from the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and join the Romanian Orthodox Church. The meeting was convened by the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Moldova (OCM), Metropolitan Vladimir (Kantarian), Jurnal TV reports.
As explained by the rector of the Chisinau Church of St. Demetrius Pavel Borshchevsky to journalists, previously priests from more than 30 parishes spoke in favor of joining the Romanian Orthodox Church, only one cleric was against it.
“We cannot be the same church with the patriarch, who blesses his priests to pray for the victory of the Russian army against Ukraine, our long-suffering sister,” stressed Borshchevsky.
In September, Metropolitan Vladimir sent Patriarch Kirill a letter in which he spoke about the problems the OCM had experienced in the last year and a half. He noted that the metropolis “is now seen in Moldovan society as an outpost of the Kremlin and a champion of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.”
“Such a connection is tantamount to our disappearance from the religious and social scene of the country due to our countrymen’s continued rejection of Russia’s aggressive interference in the affairs of both the neighboring and friendly state of Ukraine and our own,” he said. stressed Vladimir.
He said the OCM was on the verge of “institutional bankruptcy” and predicted it would join the Romanian Orthodox Church. Vladimir also accused the Moscow Patriarchate of ignoring requests for help and seeking to drag the metropolis into the “Russian world” which is alien to it.
“Unfortunately, Moscow still does not understand the fact that the people of Moldova have Latin origins. And naturally they strive to remain in this civilized space after centuries of artificial division, without in any way betraying Orthodoxy,” Vladimir said.
According to him, in Russia, both secular and ecclesiastical authorities treat and treat the citizens of Moldova as “a peripheral and spineless people, deprived of the right to make decisions that they consider necessary for their well-being and development.”
It was previously reported that Moldova will stop paying membership fees to the post-Soviet CIS as another step towards leaving this organization.
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Source: korrespondent
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