“Mount Athos has to make a choice”

On February 11, 2019, the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church Department for External Church Relations published an interview with Metropolitan Bishop Hilarion. He focuses on information coming from Mount Athos concerning the recognition of the new autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine:“There is contradictory information coming from Mount Athos. On one hand, we saw two Athonite abbots going to Kyiv for the ‘enthronement’ of a new head of the