By a decision of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church of December
28, 1998, a Podvorye of the Moscow Patriarchate was formed in the city
of Bari, Italy, for the spiritual nourishment of the local
Russian-speaking community and the numerous pilgrims who visit this
city to venerate the honourable relics of the holy hierarch and
wonderworker Nicholas, as well as for the support of working contacts
with religious, state and social circles in Italy. The co-worker of
the Department of external ecclesiastical relations, the priest
Vladimir Kuchumov, was appointed as superior.
From the beginning of the activity of the Podvorye, it became known
that in the lower church of the former Russian home for receiving
pilgrims, which is partly used, in accordance with an agreement, by
the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA), there was serving a
clergyman of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
His Holiness Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and All Russia wrote to His
Holiness Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, asking him to clarify the
situation that had been created, which violated the canonical
structure of the Orthodox Church, insofar as the pastoral service of a
clergyman of the Serbian Patriarchate was taking place in a
schismatic ecclesiastical structure having no communion with any Local
Orthodox Church.
His Holiness Patriarch Pavle of Serbia sent a return letter to His
Holiness Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and All Russia, in which he
expressed the position of the Sacred Synod of the Serbian Orthodox
Church in relation to the schismatics. In particular he declared the
following:
"- The Sacred Hierarchical Synod of our Holy Church has forbidden
their Graces, the Diocesan Bishops, to give any kind of canonical
permission to priests to depart for the jurisdiction of the
above-mentioned 'church'. We hope that they will stick to this.
"We are sorry that such a thing could have taken place, and we hope
that this incident will in no way spoil the age-old good brotherly
relations that have existed throughout the course of our united
history.
"In this hope, we beseech Your Holiness and the Most Holy Russian
Orthodox Church, which is so dear to us, [to forgive] our oversight,
which took place in the city of Bari, and not to consider it to be a
sin. We assure you that such an unpleasant incident will not be
repeated.
"Your Holiness knows the brotherly and Christian relations that the
Serbian Orthodox Church and people had towards Metropolitan Anthony
(Khrapovitsky) of Kiev and the bishops, monks and Russian people who
came to us in flight from the violence of the communists in 1918. This
brotherly relationship continued only until, after the fall of the
communists, the representatives of the Russian Church Abroad started
to spread their priesthood onto the territory of Russia, thereby
violating the canonical authority of the Russian patriarchate. The
Sacred Synod has more than once directed its protests to the
leadership of the Russian Church Abroad in America and demanded that
it cease from such actions since they are anticanonical and worthy of
every condemnation."
"Information Bulletin" of the Department of External Ecclesiastical
Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (N 3, 2000, pp. 51-52)
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