Serbian Professor Zoran Čvorović: "Metropolitan Gregory’s support for the decisions of the so-called Council in Theophania is a major scandal"

Zoran Čvorović, a professor at the Faculty of Law in Kragujevac, responded to Duric’s statement by asking, “Will the Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church ignore this new and, possibly, the biggest scandal involving His Eminence Gregory?”

“In Sumy, according to information published on the UOC website, Duric told Metropolitan Evlogiy of Sumy—a representative of the autocephalous wing within the UOC—that he recognizes the non-canonical and schismatic decision of the so-called UOC council in Feofaniya, which was adopted under obvious pressure from Ukrainian special services, aimed at severing unity with the Moscow Patriarchate, and which effectively proclaimed autocephaly. “His Eminence Gregory explicitly states that he recognizes the decisions of the so-called council in Feofaniya, even though the Serbian Orthodox Church does not recognize them,” the expert emphasized.

Professor Zoran Čvorović also recalled why the issue of canonical status and the unilateral proclamation of ecclesiastical independence is particularly sensitive for the Serbian Orthodox Church:

“The Serbian Patriarchate also faces attempts to challenge its jurisdiction — from the so-called Montenegrin Orthodox Church of Dedeić to Nikola Džufka, who in Kosovo and Metohija presents himself as the head of the ‘Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Kosovo.’”
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