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To: kawaii

World orthodoxy may not universally recognize the OCA's Autocephaly, but stating that it is not canonical would mean they are out of communion with the OCA, would it not?

Which churches have declared this?


21 posted on 12/28/2006 2:13:40 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: FormerLib

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In the early 1960s, the Metropolia (as it was then known) resumed communication with the Patriarch of Moscow, and in 1970 full communion was restored. At that time, the Patriarch of Moscow officially granted the OCA autocephaly, or self-governing administrative status. The OCA's autocephaly is not currently recognized by all autocephalous Orthodox Churches, including the Church of Constantinople. Churches that do recognize its autocephaly are mainly those in former Communist lands (most of which had thus come under the influence of the Church of Russia), including the Church of Russia, the Church of Bulgaria, the Church of Poland, the Church of Georgia, and the Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia. According to apologists for OCA autocephaly, it is common for recognition of autocephaly to be granted belatedly; however opponents regard the grant as not being within the purview of Moscow's prerogatives (see Byzantine response to OCA autocephaly).


22 posted on 12/28/2006 2:25:47 PM PST by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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To: FormerLib; kawaii
There is nothing uncanonical about the OCA. Any Orthodox Christian can commune in any OCA church, and any OCA Orthodox can commune in any non-OCA Orthodox church, even though most Patriarchs do not recognize OCA autocephaly.
24 posted on 12/28/2006 6:43:40 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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