«The Ukrainian Church needs to maintain unity with the Russian Church”

Archimandrite Parthenios has been the abbot of Saint Paul Monastery on Mount Athos for forty years. He is 87 and highly respected. Concerning the Ukrainian issue, he said, “I think that ecclesiastical self-rule in the form of autocephaly is a good thing in and of itself, but when there is peace, when this issue does not become a question of dividing people—the flock.” “Therefore, wisdom probably suggests how far it