Russia's war in Ukraine puts Moldovan priests before a moral choice, but there is a possibility for them to move to the Romanian metropolitanate, said Vasile Bănescu, spokesman for the Bucharest Patriarchate. The Church of Romania also said that Moldova's future is linked to Europe, reports UNN citing Evenimentul zilei and Reuters.
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The speaker of the Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC), Vasile Benescu, spoke about the priests who recently decided to move to the Metropolis of Bessarabia.
The phenomenon of the transition to the jurisdiction of the Moldovan Metropolitanate, it testifies to the ecclesiastical thaw and the formulation of the clergy's epiphany in Moldova. They realize that in fact the future of the Republic of Moldova is with Europe, with Romania
He also emphasized that the Orthodox Church of Moldova takes into account that the Russian Orthodox Church's active support of the Kremlin's war against Ukraine reduces its popularity.
The phenomenon of departures from the Moldovan Metropolitan Church, directly affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate, will continue to spread
Recall
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) calls on all states to consider Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church complicit in war crimes. The PACE is stunned by the decision of the "Russian Council" affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church to recognize the Russian Federation's war against Ukraine as "sacred.