Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "قطع الشركة بين بطريركيتي موسكو والقسطنطينية 2018" in Arabic language version.
But both sides acknowledge the canonical dispute is a proxy for a wider battle over Kyiv's independence from Moscow. ... Speaking in front of Kyiv's oldest church on Sunday, Mr Poroshenko cast "autocephaly", or autonomy for the Ukrainian church, as part of Kyiv's broader push for integration with the west through EU and Nato membership while withdrawing from agreements with Russia
To admit into communion schismatics and a person anathematized in other Local Church with all the 'bishops' and 'clergy' consecrated by him, the encroachment on somebody else's canonical regions, the attempt to abandon its own historical decisions and commitments – all this leads the Patriarchate of Constantinople beyond the canonical space and, to our great grief, makes it impossible for us to continue the Eucharistic community with its hierarch, clergy and laity. From now on until the Patriarchate of Constantinople's rejection of its anti-canonical decisions, it is impossible for all the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church to concelebrate with the clergy of the Church of Constantinople and for the laity to participate in sacraments administered in its churches.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: لغة غير مدعومة (link)To admit into communion schismatics and a person anathematized in other Local Church with all the 'bishops' and 'clergy' consecrated by him, the encroachment on somebody else's canonical regions, the attempt to abandon its own historical decisions and commitments – all this leads the Patriarchate of Constantinople beyond the canonical space and, to our great grief, makes it impossible for us to continue the Eucharistic community with its hierarch, clergy and laity. From now on until the Patriarchate of Constantinople's rejection of its anti-canonical decisions, it is impossible for all the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church to concelebrate with the clergy of the Church of Constantinople and for the laity to participate in sacraments administered in its churches.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: لغة غير مدعومة (link)But both sides acknowledge the canonical dispute is a proxy for a wider battle over Kyiv's independence from Moscow. ... Speaking in front of Kyiv's oldest church on Sunday, Mr Poroshenko cast "autocephaly", or autonomy for the Ukrainian church, as part of Kyiv's broader push for integration with the west through EU and Nato membership while withdrawing from agreements with Russia