“The historic meeting of the Holy Synod has ended. The archbishopric of the Western European parishes of the Russian tradition is now an integral part of the Moscow Patriarchate, ”TASS quoted the words of Bishop Zelenogradsky Savva (Tutunov).
According to him, a special management regime was established for her.
As the bishop noted, the archbishopric is a former diocese of the Patriarchate of Constantinople with its center in Paris.
In mid-September, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church accepted into the Russian Orthodox Church the head of the Archbishopric of Western European parishes of the Russian tradition of Archbishop John and those clergy and parishes who decide to follow him.