29 March 2007, 15:24 Canonical conflict over Bishop Basil Osborn?s going over to Constantinople settled - Metropolitan Kirill Moscow, March 29, Interfax - The problem over Bishop Basil Osborn?s moving to the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople has been canonically settled completely, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, chairman of the department for external church relations, told journalists commenting on the Holy Synod?s decision of March 27. ?The problem arose because Bishop Basil went over to Constantinople illegally, without any request from Constantinople and without any consent from the Moscow Patriarchate. Now Constantinople has requested his documents, which customarily...