Dbar expects “some positive decisions” from the Moscow Patriarchate
05/07/2011
The Moscow Patriarchate will consider the ban on service of the rebel Abkhazian priests Dorofei Dbar and Andrey Ampar. “Maybe in the near future some positive decision will be made” – Dbar told the news agency Apsnypress after returning from the Russian capital.
At that the head of the so-called “Holy Metropoltanate of Abkhazia” noted that on June 29th they discussed “conflict situation”, which “had developed in the Abkhazian Church”, with the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Illarion of Volokolamsk. And it was agreed to keep details of the conversation quiet.
Dorofei Dbar also said that in Moscow he was presented with a document dated 2008 under which he is allegedly a “bishop” under the name of Dmitry and is a head of the Sukhumi-Abkhazian diocese which is a part of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. “This was the first time when I learned about existence of this document – said Dbar. – A text of the document leaves no doubt that it was fabricated in Abkhazia”.
It should be noted that the leaders of the so-called “Holy Metropolitanate of Abkhazia” visited Moscow after their open appeal to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill to listen to them directly and make a fair decision regarding the banning of Dbar and Ampar to conduct church services. Before that they threatened to leave the Russian Orthodox Church, and even earlier they refused to go to Moscow after they had been summoned there.
