Strelna, May 31, Interfax \u2013 Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople urged Ukrainian dissenters to repent and join the canonic Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet them (dissenters \u2013 IF) not hesitate, but join the canonic Orthodox Church which is a ship of salvation,\u201d Patriarch Bartholomew said in an interview to Vesti 24 TV which was recorded Sunday in the Constantinovsky Palace in Strelna near St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

He noted that speaking with Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and all Ukraine he wished him that \u201che be honoured by God to see the solution to this problem while alive, and that the schism ceased to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur Church does everything with due respect to the existing canonic order (in Ukraine \u2013 IF),\u201d Patriarch Bartholomew commented current standpoint by Constantinople Patriarchate on Ukrainian schism.<\/p>\n

He expressed willingness of his Church to pray both for \u201cRussian and Ukrainian people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the Church in which Constantinople interfered, to the consternation of the Russian Orthodox Church. Looks like a retreat. HT: International Orthodox Christian News Patriarch Bartholomew urged Ukrainian dissenters to join the Orthodox Church Strelna, May 31, Interfax \u2013 Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople urged Ukrainian dissenters to repent and join the canonic Orthodox Church. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[296,170,954],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6897,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions\/6897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}