On the situation caused by the refusal of several Local Orthodox Churches to participate in the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church

Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church13 June 2016

The statement in which the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church backed the calls to postpone the council on Crete and resolved that its delegation could not take part if the council met without the consent of all the churches.

The statement sets out the Moscow Patriarchate’s view of the weeks before the council: its proposal of 3 June for an emergency pre-conciliar conference, the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s refusal, and the decisions of the churches of Bulgaria, Antioch, Serbia and Georgia, which it quotes. It argues from the rule of consensus that a council lacking any one of the recognised autocephalous churches cannot be held as planned, and ends with six resolutions.

It is one party’s account of a dispute and is cited in the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church for the Russian church’s own reasons. Its summaries of the other churches’ decisions agree with those churches’ own texts where this wiki has checked them.

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