The Russian Orthodox Church was invited to the World Council of Churches to be held in Germany

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Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church were invited to the World Council of Churches to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany. DEA News”.

“The composition of the delegation to the WCC assembly in Karlsruhe was approved by the Holy Synod. This will be a very representative delegation headed by the head of the DECR, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk. It will also include a number of hierarchies, clergy and laity of the Russian Orthodox Church. “The World Council of Churches expects a delegation from the Russian Orthodox Church to attend the meeting,” said Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), Secretary for Inter-Christian Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Foreign Church Relations Department (DECR).

Formerly several dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church refused Follow the council’s decision to declare independence from Moscow.

At the same time, the UOC expressed its readiness to initiate a dialogue with the separatist Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OCU) under a set of circumstances.

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