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Immediately after Christmas (on the Gregorian Calendar), I linked toProfessor Arjakovskyspiece, I Can No Longer Remain Silent, published on his own blog,concerning the Russian
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Patriarchate, its declaration on the question of primacy in the Church, and its response to the
protests in Ukraine. Arjakovskysoriginal piece was in French, but I think it is important enough
that it should be made available in English. He raises many points that need to be heard andpondered by all Christians, but especially by those with an interest in Orthodoxy, Catholicism,
European history, and the abuse of both history and theology.
If you were unable to read it in French, I strongly recommend you read it in English.
[Errors in the text will likely be due to faulty translation by me. If readers come across anyserious difficulties in the text, or notice any glaring errors, please bring them to my attention in
the comments, and I shall endeavor to correct them.]
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For a long time, I turned a blind eye to the evolution of the Russian Church. I identified theMoscow Patriarchate with the Church. Like a child before his fathers nudity, terribly
embarrassed by his indignity, I inclined my face toward her. Today, after the double declarationof the Moscow Patriarchate on the 26th of December 2013 concerning the events in Ukraine andon the issue of primacy in the Church, I can no longer keep quiet. Today, I can no longer
consider the Moscow Patriarchate as the legitimate structure representing the Russian Church.
It has been a while since I denounced the Moscow Patriarchates inappropriate pretensions to
jurisdictional power over the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It effectively suffices to consult a
manual of history to establish that, if there is a Mother Church for the Ukrainian OrthodoxChurch, it could only be the Church of Constantinople to which Prince Wolodymyr turned in
988. We know how much the Ukrainian Orthodox Church suffered at the beginning of the 1990s
for not having received recognition of its autonomy. Three churches were born in Ukraine in
1991-1992 from this non-recognition. Last September, in an article in The Cross, I recalledonce again that the view of Patriarch Kyrill on the unity of the Russian world was a dangerous
myth, as it legitimised the neo-imperialist politics of the Kremlin. Especially as it rests on
nothing but a common cultural root, Kyivan Rus that gave rise from the seventeenth century tothe historic constitution of three nations and three languages: Ukrainian, Belarussian, and.
Russian. We dont think in France that the Pope thinks in terms of the unity of the French,
Spanish, and Italian nations apart from their unity in the Catholic Faith.
Today, not only has Patriarch Kyrill revisited this dubious unity of the brotherhood of Russian
peoples, but he has uttered not a word of support to the Ukrainian people who have gathered
together in the icy cold and with great danger to life against a corrupt regime (starting with theson of Yanukovitch, who became a multibillionaire in a few months), engaged in beating the
blood out of peaceful protesters. Rather, the Holy Synod has vigorously condemned civil
tensions and revolution which cannot result in anything positive for the people. From Moscow,the bishops have given no currency to the declaration of Metropolitan Wolodymyr, the head of
the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), who has called on the Ukrainian
government since the beginning of December, to take account of the indignation of the Ukrainianpeople. On the contrary, the bishops of the Moscow Patriarchate speak of a necessary
reconciliation between different ethnic and social groups. This phrase testifies to the complete
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blindness of the Moscow Patriarchate, in that they fail to see that there is no ethnic tension in
Euromaidan, but the profound desire of the Ukrainian population, attested to by all the polls, to
belong to the great family of European nations that, in spite of all their weaknesses, base theirlaws on the defence of the dignity of every human person.
Instead of enthusing over such proof of spiritual vitality on the part of the Ukrainian people,Moscows declaration makes dubious allusions to external forces which have come to divide
the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for political reasons. In fact, it is the Moscow Patriarchate that
has, for twenty years, done everything to isolate the Kyivan Patriarchate (the Church directed byPatriarch Philaret which declared autocephaly in 1992, and which is not recognised in the
Orthodox world), whose principal demand, which has never been accepted by the Moscow
Patriarchate, is to translate the Old Slavonic liturgical texts into modern Ukrainian and that its
independence be recognised. Again last September, Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow categoricallyopposed the translation of Old Slavonic texts into the vernacular. But what is worse in this
unfortunate declaration is probably that the Moscow Patriarchate, which even the press does not
hesitate to criticise for its rich tastes and luxuries, refers to values and divine truth to oppose a
movement which is based precisely on a sense of dignity and justice.
The other declaration of the 26th
of December of the Moscow Patriarchate dedicated to the themeof primacy in the Church, is just as unacceptable for me. By it, the Russian/neo-Soviet
Patriarchate testifies to its profoundly autocratic nature and its abusive use of theology for the
sake of domination. In it, the Russian Patriarchate effectively reveals its profoundly anti-
ecumenical nature. We can see direct continuity with the Soviet Church which, in 1948,vigorously condemned the movement for Christian unity. We remember that Patriarch Kyrill
even condemned the use of the word ecumenism in 2007 in Sibiu, Romania. The Russian
Church, moreover, since that assembly, has quit the Conference of Christian Churches in Europe(CEC). Further, we know that this anti-ecumenical attitude is also linked to the global rejection
of modernity and democracy as recalled numerous times by Father Vsevolod Tchaplin, one of
the closest collaborators of the Patriarch. This declaration would have the Christian world
believe that the power of the bishop is equal to the authority of God, that the authority of theBishop of Rome, successor of Peter, has no warrant in the Gospel, and that the authority of the
Patriarch of Constantinople is nothing but a formality in the Orthodox Church!
I will return here to discuss neither the absurdity of various propositions nor the details of my
arguments. I have, in the past, published an article on authority in the Orthodox tradition (inEn
attendant le concile de lEglise Orthodoxe), and I have similarly written an article on myunderstanding of primacy in the Church (forthcoming in the JournalIstina, January 2014). I
would simply wish to say here to all the faithful of the Russian Church that there is nothing to be
embarrassed about in this declaration, as it simply has no theological value. It suffices to recall
three points in order to close the discussion which represents nothing theological, and is in realityentirely political.
First of all, the authors of this declaration confound the notion of authority (the famous exousiaof the Gospel) with that of power (as used in secular law). It is true that this distinction is only
significant from the point of view of the Christian faith. Nevertheless, the exchange between
Christ and the centurion allows one to get an idea as to the difference between authority and
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power (St Luke 7:1-10). Power, the centurion says, is to say go to ones slave and he does it.
As for authority, it is capable of miracles, like healing someone from a distance, as it depends not
on compulsion but on love. The confusion of the two gives room for distortions. The fact that thetext speaks of bishops as nourishing the faithful with the Eucharistic sacramentshows that
the authors are from a weak theological culture. The worst is that the Moscow Patriarchate uses
the most reproving teachings of Christ against those who seek for power as opposed to service,to justify a position that understands authority precisely as power and not like service. Westrongly recommend the Muscovite authors to read Fr Sergius Bulgakovs article Hierarchy and
Sacrament, which appeared in the journal La Voiein 1938. In his mind, the conciliar practice of
the Church does not put the bishop above the faithful as, by virtue of their baptism, the faithfulare considered kings, priests, and prophets. Historic Orthodox practice of closely associating the
bishop with the people of God, confirms the dogmatic principal according to which the whole
Church is hierarchical, as the Body of Christ and the Temple of the Holy Spirit. Service is the
basis and function of hierarchy.
Secondly, if Christ holds all authority over the Church, this does not suggest that the Church
does not need to conform to the Trinitarian nature of Gods authority. It is not in abbreviatedcitations of the Church Fathers and setting to the side decades of ecumenical research on the
subject that the Russian bishops will be able to pull through. Because if it is true that the figureof the Father, personal basis of the visible unity of the Trinity, must be actualised in theorganisation of the Church, the figure of the Son and the Holy Spirit must be equally so. It is for
this reason that the Paris School has so insisted on the theology of St Irenaeus alongside that of
Ignatius of Antioch and Cyprian of Carthage. After all, it was Irenaeus who said, Where theChurch is, there is also the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church and
all grace(Contra haereses, 3, 24,1). The government of the Church, however much Patriarch
Kyrill might wish it, cannot rest solely on the person of the bishop. It is vital to be honest and
remember that in the apostolic period, the bishops were elected by the people.
We dont understand very well why, in the Russian document, to the degree we distance
ourselves from the level of diocesan governance, power widely accepted on a local levelbecomes, at the global level, merely a primacy of honour. Authority as service does not make
sense except on a global level, and has little use on a local level. This is the consequence of the
initial confusion between authority and power, and the absence of a kataphatic theology ofauthority. It suffices, nevertheless, to read the 34
thapostolic canon (reasserted by the Council of
Antioch in 341), to understand that the principle of authority as service applies at all levels of the
Church: The bishops of each nation must know who among them is first, and think of him astheir head, and not to do anything exceptional without seeking his advice. Each of them must not
impose anything apart from what he does in his own diocese and dependent territories. But
neither must the first do anything apart from the mind of the others. In this way lies concord, and
God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, will be glorified in the Lord by the Holy Spirit.
What is more, the absence of precise understanding on the part of the Russian authors regarding
the governance of the Church over the course of the first millennium, is patently clear. We wouldrecommend that they immerse themselves in the text of the commission of the French Catholic-
Orthodox Dialogue. This recognised that neither regional nor universal primacy were merely
abstract ideas. Aside from the power to convoke councils, the See of Rome (then that of
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Constantinople) had the right to judge appeals, as recognised by the Council of Sardica in 343.
The ancient Church recognised this right at the Photian Council at Constantinople in 879.
Thirdly, the power of a primate over the Universal Church is always suspicious to the
Muscovite bishops because of its inherent challenge to the authority of local churches. This is so
much the case that the primacy of the Patriarch of Constantinople, although recognised (whichwould have certainly have cost much of the declarations authors!), has been stripped of its
authority and therefore purpose. Essentially, for the Moscow bishops, this authority is powerless
without the consensus of all the regional churches. We start to understand why it is that theOrthodox have been unable to unite under a pan-Orthodox council for many centuries. More
humility would be welcome from the Church who criticises the spirit of domination in the
Roman Church, but who finds itself impotent to even recognise the legitimacy of the Estonian
Orthodox Church.
The Catholic Church is accused of wanting a single administrative centre from which to manage
all global affairs. This is to overlook the hundreds of particular churches that make up the
Catholic communion, and the synods that stand up to the Vatican on a regular basis and whichunite all these churches. It is equally to ignore the concerns of all the Popes, from John XXIII to
Francis I, to decentralise the organisation of the Catholic Church and to delegate moreresponsibilities to the particular Churches. I am not saying that the position of the Roman Church
has been perfect through history. I proposed recently a Trinitarian model of governance at the
heart of the universal Church, local, and diocesan, that integrates the gifts of Peter, of James, and
of John. But respecting the dynamic reality of history and the deepest desires of the most recentpopes to create a model of government that corresponds with the human-divine nature of the
Church, and which fully baptismal, Eucharistic, and pastoral, is hardly of interest to the
Muscovite authors. I strongly recommend they read the book by Orthodox theologian, OlivierClement,Rome autrement, which recognises that the successors of Peter have a right of personal
governance of the Church which is specific to them. In this regard, it suffices to read chapter 21
of the Gospel of John. But as Orthodox tradition saysand this is perhaps a difficult distinction
for the Muscovite authors to graspthis right ispersonal, and not individual. This is because itis the Church that is infallible and not the individual Pope, as Catholic theologian Bernard
Sesbo, has demonstrated so well.
The fact is that Soviet ideology has not yet disappeared in the ex-USSR. We see this very clearly
with the demonstrations in Ukraine against corruption, but also more generally against a state
whose fundamental architecture is has not evolved since Stalin. Butand it is terrible for me tohave to write thisit is not only in the streets of Kyiv that busts of Lenin are still in place. Soviet
ideology is still deeply rooted equally in the heart and ecclesial mentality of the hierarchy of the
Moscow Patriarchate. That these hierarchs react at the same time against the spiritual desire of
the Ukrainian people for democracy, and against the thirst of the people of God to pursue theunity of the Church is for me deeply significant. The Moscow Patriarchate suffers for not having
repented, for not having been purified of the long years of compromise with the Soviet power.
As demonstrated more and more by Russian Church specialists in France (K. Rousselet) andRussia (N. Mitrokhin), this Church no sense of history, and does not grasp the new issues in the
present time of globalisation. I would add that she shows a cynicism that is becoming more and
more revolting. This explains why the majority of intellectuals are sadly and silently leaving this
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Church, and why a powerful anti-clericalism is spreading in the hearts of the Russian, Ukrainian,
and Belarussian peoples.
Over the course of my last thirty years of engagement in the Orthodox Church, I have not stayed
idle. From the 1980s, when the Patriarchate of Moscow was bound up with Soviet power, I did
everything I could, at the heart of different Orthodox Christian organisations, to help the Russianpeople to free themselves from Communist slavery. I remember having carried, thanks to the
work of Cyril Eltchaninoff, religious literature and computers to such dissidents as Alexander
Ogorodnikov or Viktor Popkov. Then, when the USSR collapsed, and the Moscow Patriarchatebenefitted from a spiritual renewal brought about principally by Christian dissidents and
religious literature provided by Russian migrs, I did everything I could to communicate this
spiritual and intellectual renewal from the Paris School. I lived in Moscow almost
continually between 1989 and 1998. I met some of the great spiritual figures such as FatherAlexander Men, Father George Chistiakov, and Father George Kotchetkov, but also a number of
Russian intellectuals such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Sergius Avertintsev, and Olga Sedakov. I
was inspired to see the Russian Church risen from the cinders and carrying afresh the good news
of the Resurrection of Christ, and the closeness of the Kingdom of God to a people who hadsuffered so much through sixty years of intensive Sovietisation.
I noted well from this period that the official Church never repented of her compromises with
the Soviet power, a regime that was responsible for tens of millions of deaths. As the published
archives of the KGB revealed, the bishops who currently lead the Moscow Patriarchate were for
the most part, starting with the patriarchs Alexis II and Kyrill, agents of the Soviet secretservices. Practically, not one of them has uttered a public mea culpa. The very limited regrets
pronounced by the Patriarch of Moscow, Alexis II, in the name of the Church cannot, on their
own, serve as a counterweight. Patriarch Alexis II was content to effectively declare on the 27th
of October 1990 that the episcopal Synod no longer felt bound by the declaration of submission
to the Soviet regime of Metropolitan Sergius of 1927. In that same pronouncement, however, he
added a justification in principal for the submission of the Church to the civil powers by calling
on the Apostle Paul. It was not until the year 2000 that the Russian Church timidly accepted inher social doctrine the principle of resistance to unjust powers.
I also noted with sadness that all those accused of modernism a derogatory term, wrongly
identified with the pseudo Living Church of the 1920s were pursued with vigour. I read with
great sadness that this same patriarch twice blessed the two neo-colonial wars in Chechnya. And
I observed that the pretext of unity of the Russian Church was systematically invoked each timeto marginalise a little bit more those who subscribe to ecumenical dialogue, or to excuse those
who publically burnt the books of Alexander Schmemann. In fact, the modernists, masters of the
Paris School such as Sergei Bulgakov, Alexander Schmemann, and George Fedotov, were far
from wanting to divide the Church. All they did was to put into practice reforms seen in theWest, such as participation in the life of the Church by the laity, the translation of liturgical texts
into the vernacular, and the Gospel-based, ecumenical opening up.
This is one of the reasons for which I left Russia in 1998 for Ukraine, a country much more open
to the authentic Orthodox tradition, to modernity, and to ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue.
In Kyiv, where I could publish my book about the Paris School, I benefited from the hospitality
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of many vibrant Orthodox parishes, and the friendship of many Ukrainian intellectuals. After a
stay of four years in Kyiv, I left for Lviv, where I discovered the extremely dynamic Greek
Catholic Church, inheritor of the Orthodox Church of Kyiv, but faithful to the Council ofFlorence of 1439. The Moscow Patriarchate accuses it of having destroyed three of its dioceses
at the beginning of the 1990s, when this long-suppressed Church only tried to recover its own
parishes. (Most of the conflicts of the 1990s in Western Ukraine took place as we do not knowenough between the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and the Patriarch of Kyiv.) I found at the heartof the Ukrainian Catholic University the first Institute for Ecumenical Studies in the world,
established in an Orthodox country. Together with the support of the bishops and other
Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant authorities, we created a Masters programme in ecumenicalstudies, an ecumenical journal in Russian and Ukrainian, annual ecumenical social weeks, and
various colloquia, films, and publications. I very much noticed the initial reticence of the local
orthodox bishopof the Moscow Patriarchatebut was pleased to see him finally participate in
our events with increased enthusiasm over time. Above all, I was overjoyed to receive thesupport of Metropolitan Wolodymyr, leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow
Patriarchate, together with a number of priests and lay people.
Meanwhile, I was revolted to see that the Moscow Patriarchate continued to accuse Greek
Catholic Christians of being traitors, when they should have been starting by repenting forhaving organised a false council in 1946 in Lviv under pressure from Stalin. That masquerade,which in 2013 has not yet been denounced by the Moscow Patriarchate, led to the arrest of a
number of bishops and the ultimate and complete suppression of the Greek Catholic Church. It is
for this reason that I published an article on the pseudo-synod of Lviv and I produced a film in avariety of languages on the subject. I was also scandalised that the Moscow Patriarchate failed to
vigorously condemn the Stalinist power for its act of genocide against the Ukrainian people in
1932-1933: the famous Holodomor which resulted in the deaths of around five million people.
That this did not happen in 1933 I can understand, as unfortunately, Metropolitan Sergius hadtied his fate to the pains and joys the Stalinist regime in 1927. But that it continues after 1991 to
dilute the drama of great suffering known by the Soviet people in that period: that I cannot
understand. To this end, I coordinated two colloquia in La Salette then in Paris on the theme of
the Holodomor.
Finally, I am dismayed that the Moscow Patriarchate has not asked forgiveness from the Russianmigr community for all the harm it has caused it in the past, and that it accords no public
recognition for all the work accomplished in Paris toward preserving Russian spirituality. It
would be enough for the Russian patriarch to come and kneel at the cemetery of Saint Genevieveof the Woods before the tomb of Father Sergius Bulgakov, and to offer public regret over his
predecessor Metropolitan Sergius 1935 condemnation of the thought of this professor of St
Sergius Institute. It would have been easier if the 1937 commission of Metropolitan Eulogius, a
Russian bishop sent to Paris by Patriarch Tikhon, had totally exonerated the principal theologianof the Paris School. It was at the time the only fully canonical authority within the Russian
Orthodox Church. Not only has there been no gesture of repentance, but the Moscow
Patriarchate decided to appropriate the Emigrations most beautiful churches. So, for example,
the cathedral in Nice was sustained for decades by the Russian emigration, who did everything topreserve the memory of a free Russia during the era of Stalin and Brezhnev. But in 2011, the
Patriarchate appropriated it without hesitation, by applying the pressure of the Russian state on
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the French courts. In order to make their argument, the Patriarchate invoked the extremely
dubious idea of continuityas established by Muscovite juristsbetween the contemporary
Russian state and the Tsarist empire, through the intervening Soviet state. This continuity,accepted by the French courts, should have led to the repayment of Russian loans and damages
paid to dispossessed families of the Russian Emigration, but it did nothing of the sort. The
Patriarch of Moscow even had the audacity to announce in 2007 to his flock that reconciliationhad been effected with the celebrated migr Church, known in Russia for its elevated theologyand for its work for liberty. His did this only by hiding the fact from them that this was in reality
only the smallest, most conservative, anti-ecumenical party within the migr Church (the
famous Zarubejnaja Church, which was not recognised by a single Orthodox Church in the worldby reason of its support for Nazism during the war). Once again, I must recommend to those who
ask what my thinking is on the matter, that they read my book on the history of the Orthodox
Church in Emigration (La gnration des penseurs religieux de lmigration russe).
The recent dual position of the Moscow Patriarchate on primacy in the Church and on the
political situation in Ukraine is for me the straw that broke the camels back. Long I blessed my
grandparents who, in 1931, took the courageous step of quitting the Moscow Patriarchate for theomophorion of the Patriarch of Constantinople. Today, I consider with deep sadness that the
hierarchs who conduct the Russian Church are not worthy of the mission of universalreconciliation given them by the Most High. But I remain confident. This is because the seeds oflife, which were planted in the heart of the Russian Church both by the Paris School and by the
multitude of martyrs and confessors of the Faith, will triumph over hypocrisy and adversity.
Since the recent declaration is a text of small canonical importance, it will always be possible intime to correct it with better texts.Then again, after all, the Moscow Patriarchate, as it knows
itself, has only existed since the sixteenth century
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1. Joseph Mroz11/01/2014 at 04:45 Reply
In the second-last paragraph the line the famous ZarubejnajaChurch, which was
recognized by a single Orthodox Church should say was not recognized qui ntait
pourtant reconnue par aucune Eglise. Is he referring to ROCOR? If so I am confused,because it seems that the parts of ROCOR that did not go along with the reconciliation
are much more conservative. Or did he mean to place ROCOR in the context of theMetropolia, and Patriarchal dioceses outside Russia?
o Lateran64911/01/2014 at 10:26 Reply
I have now corrected the phrase you refer to, but I have to admit that I dont know
enough about the politics of ROCOR to answer your question. I assumed
Arjakovsky was talking about a group within ROCOR, but if someone else canshad any light on this, I would welcome their comments.
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