The corresponding statement was made in Russian in a video message of Metropolitan Nikolai Plovdivsky and Gavril Lovchansky, who published on the website of the Russian Church in Ukraine.
The messages of the Bulgarian confessors sound with great love, care and sorrow. They explain that the schism is a great wound for the Church.
“The church is the body of Christ and there is a great wound on the body of Christ, which was inflicted by the division in Ukraine.
At us the Bulgarian Church too has gone through these difficult tests of political split. It was scary.
We know best what a split is and what the consequences are. “