The President of Belarus already had “angrily rejected” any insinuation regarding the branch of the Belarusian Orthodox Church from Russian. But osadochek remained.
The Russian theologian and religious leader Andrei Kuraev calls “soft threat” the loud statement of the President of the Republic of Belarus about the possible autocephaly of the Church, said “Диалог.UA”.
“This is a clear soft threat: if you pull the blanket over himself and emerge here this mine in our relationship.
It is clear that the opinion of Constantinople his letters 1686 concerns all over the Kiev mitropolii the 17th century, includes current and Belarus”, – says Andrey Kuraev, Recalling that about 500 years ago on the territory of modern Belarus, its parishes had a Church of Kyiv.
In the comments to a post of a priest saying that this turn of events, even if not now but in the foreseeable future, is quite likely. And over time, the Russian propagandists have to part with one of their favorite myths about the “triune Russia”.
Recall, the Greek expert stated that Moscow could not claim the title of “Third Rome” in the confrontation with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, but will make conflict with the Greeks who resent the idea of rejection by the Russians of the Orthodox hierarchs.