Metropolitan Hilarion: « I dread to think what would happen if autocephaly was granted to schismatics »

In an interview with the Greek Agency Romfea, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, addressed various issues, including the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Here is a translation of it. – A few days ago, the Ecumenical Patriarchate agreed to consider the issue of granting autocephaly in the Ukraine. How does the Russian Church see this decision? – With perplexity. Neither His Holiness the Patriarch