The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church at today’s session recognized the Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archdiocese as an autocephalous sister church.
“On August 25, 2022, at the session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, the message of His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus’ Kirill I was heard about the granting by the Serbian Orthodox Church of the autocephaly of the Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archdiocese.
The Synod decided to thank God for resolving the issue of the status of the Orthodox Church in North Macedonia on a canonical basis and to recognize the Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archdiocese as an autocephalous sister church, inscribing the name of its Head, His Beatitude the Archbishop Stefan of Ohrid and Macedonia, in the holy diptychs,” the Russian Orthodox Church announced on its website.
