Archbishop John of Charioupolis’s letter to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is fake, and possibly « provocation »

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