The Romanian Synod condemns its metropolitan who communed with Uniates, but decided not to punish him
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Bucharest, July 11, Interfax - The Romanian Orthodox Holy Synod didn't take any actions against Metropolitan Nicolae of Banat who had communed with Uniates and Bishop Sofronie of Oradea who had blessed water on Epiphany together with a Greek-Catholic hierarch. "The Holy Synod condemns non-canonical actions of the both hierarchs which concerned the Church. But the Holy Synod considered their repentance as the fist sign of their reformation," a communiques of the Romanian Patriarchate press-service reads as it is published on its official website, the Interfax-Religion has reported. The Synod points out that it is inadmissible for all hierarchs, priests, deacons, monks and laymen of the Romanian Orthodox Church "to commune in other Christian Church," while all Orthodox clerics cannot "conduct sacraments with clerics of other cults.""Those who will not follow this decision will be excommuned by the Orthodox Church and subjected to canonical sanctions appropriate for their position in the Church," the Synod's decision notes. Thus, clerics will be defrocked and laymen will be excommuned, the text reads. As Interfax-Religion has reported earlier, Metropolitan Nicolae of Banat communed at a liturgy in the Greek-Catholic Church in Timisoara in presence of the apostolic nuncio to Romania Archbishop Francisco Javier Lozano.Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Kirill asked the head of the Romanian Patriarchate Sector for External Church Relations Bishop Cyprian "to clear up if the Romanian hierarch had indeed communed with non-Orthodox" and to voice the attitude of the Romanian Patriarchate and the Synod to this fact.
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