mo4ch:>‘Perverting history’: Bulgarian priest condemns Constantinople for splitting Orthodox Church | Mo4ch News
A Bulgarian Orthodox priest has condemned the actions of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who is set to grant self-rule to a schismatic Orthodox church in Ukraine – contrary to the religion’s canonic law.A day before millions of Orthodox Ukrainians celebrate Christmas, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople plans to grant independence to a freshly created ‘Orthodox Church of Ukraine’ – a unified body of two schismatic churches in the country.The Russian Orthodox Church, which was the supreme Orthodox authority over Ukrainian territory for centuries, denies Constantinople’s claim over Ukraine and says its autonomous branch, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, remains the only canonical Orthodox organization in the country.Also on rt.comConstantinople was unwise to antagonize Moscow, leading Oxford-based Orthodox theologian saysThe controversial merger earlier this year was an “obvious iniquity,” Bulgaria’s Archpriest Bozhidar Glavev told RT, accusing Patriarch Bartholomew of “perverting h…