Post #1771

“All the Hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia refrain from concelebrating with the hierarchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church.” Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Council of Bishops, “Protocol No. 13,” May 19/June 1, 1967. “The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad at the present time does not concelebrate with New Calendarists or with ecumenists…” “…binding on all the clergy and members of our Church.” Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Synod of Bishops, “Notice from the Chancery of the Synod of Bishops,” February 6/19, 1987, signed by Archbishop Laurus. “By the same token we have no spiritual communion with any autocephalous Orthodox Church, living by the new calendar and having communion in prayer with the ecumenists. Thus, any kind of communion has been destroyed, both in prayer and also even in the sacraments.” Metropolitan Vitaly, “Pre-Conciliar Epistle from the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia,” Orthodox Life 50, no. 4 (July-August 2000): 2–3.