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Unity of Russian Orthodox Church must be supported by all Orthodox Churches - Metropolitan Hilarion (updated)

Moscow, April 17, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church has ruled out a rethink of its unity.

"We believe that the unity of the Orthodox Church is that unassailable value which must be supported by all Orthodox Churches," Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, told reporters on Tuesday.

He was commenting on the report that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had decided to ask Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople to recognize the autocephaly (autonomy) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The hierarch said he did not have reliable information about the conversation between Poroshenko and the patriarch.

The Russian Orthodox Church continues praying that the division of the Ukrainian church be overcome, "that the people who have entered into schism return to the fold of the canonical church" led by Metropolitan Onufriy of Kiev, Metropolitan Hilarion said.

"We remain open to dialogue," he said.

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