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To: Claud; kawaii

I know virtually nothing about this situation, but as always, take what comes out of Moscow with a grain, or perhaps a pound, of salt (same goes for Constantinople too, by the way).

Here's a link which attempts to explain what's happening. I have no idea if it is accurate but at least it doesn't seem polemical.

http://orthodoxwiki.org/Diocese_of_Sourozh


8 posted on 11/22/2006 10:28:31 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis
Archbishop Innokenty (Vasilyev) of Korsun was sent by the patriarchate to read out a patriarchal decree at the Sourozh cathedral in London retiring Basil and placing control of the diocese under Innokenty. Basil's response was to appeal to the arbitration of the Ecumenical Patriarch, citing canons 9 and 17 of the Fourth Ecumenical Council, which grant to clergy the right of appeal to the exarch of their diocese or to 'the throne of the imperial city of Constantinople'.[2] Bishop Basil and his supporters have interpreted these canons to demarcate a general ecclesiastical principle that in general a dispute with a superior hierarch may be referred to Constantinople.[3] This interpretation is rejected by Moscow.[4]

This seems to be the salient part of the wikipedia article.

10 posted on 11/22/2006 10:36:50 AM PST by Claud
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