ECUMENISM: THE PATRIARCHATE OF MOSCOW CHALLENGES THE "RAVENNA DOCUMENT" (2)

” “Then, the comments of the Theological Commission will have to be examined and approved by the Holy Synod of the Russian Church. In fact, the "Ravenna document" was not signed by the delegates of the Patriarchate of Moscow, who had left the meeting of the Joint Commission for Dialogue since the very first session because of the presence of the "Estonian Apostolic Church" that the Patriarchate of Moscow publicly contests because it has been established by the Patriarchate of Constantinople on the canonical ground of the Russian Church. Going into the details, the bishop Hilarion challenges the passages of the document that speak of Peter’s primacy. "We are – he explains – trapped. It is as if the Catholics were contriving to find an ecclesiological model of an ecumenical Church so that the role of the prime bishop may coincide with what the Pope of Rome is in the modern Roman Catholic Church". ” “