WARSAW – The Polish Orthodox Church’s Bishops’ Council has declined recognizing the Constantinople Patriarchate’s decision to resume the Eucharistic communication with Ukrainian “non-canonical churches”, the Polish Orthodox Church said on its website on Nov. 16.
“The Holy Bishops’ Council bans priests of the Polish Orthodox Church from having liturgical and prayer contacts with the ‘clergy’ of the so-called Kyiv Patriarchate and the so-called ‘autocephalic Orthodox church,’ which have done much evil in the past,” the Bishops’ Council said in a statement.
They say, this decision is caused by the fact that several dioceses and a monastery in Poland, which were set up by “head of the self-proclaimed Kyiv Patriarchate Filaret’s supporters without any authorization and which the Polish Orthodox Church has not recognized before and now is not going to engage in fraternal communication with them only because of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s decisions.”
Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church have earlier said that they refused to recognize the rehabilitation of the leaders of Ukrainian church schism.
