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The Piraeus Metropolis’ Department of Heresies and Cults calls to condemn ‘the legalization’ of the Ukrainian schismatics

The Piraeus Metropolis’ Department of Heresies and Cults calls to condemn ‘the legalization’ of the Ukrainian schismatics
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11 February 2022 year 10:20

The Department of Heresies and Cults of the Piraeus Metropolis of the Orthodox Church of Greece has published in the Greek Vima Ortodoxias edition an article entitled “What Does the Destruction of Christianity in the West Means for the East?”.

As it is noted in the publication signed by Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus, “The de-Christianization of Europe, just as the apostasy of the Western world as a whole is a dramatic, evolving reality that will also mean the end of the European civilization”.

Among several basic causes of the crisis of Christianity in Europe, the article points to “the legalization” of the schism in the world Orthodox community as a majority of Greek hierarchs have accepted that the schismatic entity headed by Epifaniy Dumenko and consisting of deposed, anathematized or non-ordained persons with a small flock represents “the official Autocephalous Church of Ukraine”.

The publication also points to the light-headed attitude of Greek hierarchs to the misconceptions of the 2016 Council of Crete.

The authors of the study believe it necessary to convene in the nearest future the Local Council of the Orthodox Church of Greece so that it could condemn certain misconceptions in the sphere of ecumenism, stop assisting the schism and conciliarly condemn the invalid “autocephaly” of the Ukrainian schismatics.

DECR Communication Service/Patriarchia.ru

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