STATEMENT OF METROPOLITAN VALENTINE OF THE ROAC (according to Nathaniel):
[I ROAC Subdeacon Nathanael Kapner made contact with Vladyka Valentine who is now in New York with ROAC Administrator Archimandrite Fr Andrei (Maklakov)
Here is Vladyka Valentine's comment on the ROCOR SOBOR of 2006:
Metropolitan Valentine: "First of all, we have been fighting the Moscow Patriarchate since the early ninetees in Russia--first as the FROC, (Free Russian Orthodox Church), and then later as the ROAC. (Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church.)
~ "Now that the MP has finally crushed the ROCOR, thanks to the work of Archbishop Mark of Berlin, who has collaborated with the MP since the early ninetees, the Moscow Patriarchate is intensifying its efforts to destroy the ROAC Church, with our nearly 300 parishes in Russia. Since we the ROAC are the largest Church entity that takes a stand against the MP, we are being targeted.
~ "And the MP wishes to destroy me as well. For the MP believes that if they can destroy me, whether through physical harm; seizure of our ROAC properties by re-registrations into their name; or slander; -then the entire ROAC will fall apart. But of course--they are very much in error in their thinking as we have many priests and bishops.
~ "But we hope in God's protection. We have anathamatized the sergianist MP. (*See 'Comments' Below) We have risked much--even our own lives, in taking a bold stand against the MP in Russia.
~ "As regards the current ROCOR SOBOR now taking place--it is a shame that the ROCOR has to go down this way. For the ROCOR is now finished!"
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