One year ago, on September 12, 2018, Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus,
in a television interview, was asked why the Ecumenical Patriarchate accepted
the request of Ukraine for the granting of Autocephaly. Metropolitan Seraphim
answered clearly and emphatically: Because
Ukraine is a canonical territory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate! Also,
Metropolitan Seraphim mentioned the correct ecclesiastical principle, that the
Ecumenical Patriarchate has the exclusive privilege of giving, but also taking
back, Autocephaly to Local Churches.
Just a year later, on September 12, 2019, Metropolitan Seraphim published a lengthy article in which he challenged and contradicted what he said on
television then.
The question is what happened within a year? Why is Metropolitan
Seraphim writing the opposite today? Why does he deny the rights of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate which he publicly proclaimed a year ago?
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