The Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) declared they did not receive any December 7 letter from the head of the Russian Exarchate in Western Europe, which was recently dissolved by Constantinople. This letter was published on the internet last Wednesday. “The letter published on the website Credo.press, did not reach the DECR. The employee of this department referred to in the article is a fictitious person,” specified Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, the DECR vice