« The Patriarch of Constantinople has lost his declared primacy in world Orthodoxy »

Interviewed in a TV program, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church Department for External Church Relations declared the following, « The Patriarch of Constantinople has lost his declared primacy in world Orthodoxy. We can no longer recognize him as the first in the family of Orthodox Churches, and he can no longer speak in the name of the whole Orthodoxy, as he used to. Patriarch Bartholomew can no