Hilarion of Volokolamsk, declared that the Russian Orthodox Church was breaking off Eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople at the Holy Synod meeting in Minsk on Monday.
“At today’s meeting of the Holy Synod, it was decided to completely break the Eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople,” Hilarion said.
If there were ever any doubts that the leaders of the Euroskeptic coalition that now runs Italy has a plan to defy the European Union its proposed budget should quell them. Both Deputy Prime Ministers, Luigi Di Maio of Five Star Movement and Matteo Salvini of The League, were adamant about locking horns with European Union leadership over all issues of sovereignty between now and May’s European Parliamentary elections.