12. 01. 2021. 00:00   >>  18:51 0

’’POLITICAL STATEMENTS’’

Serbian Orthodox Church reacted to Bishop Grigorije’s statement

In an announcement, the Serbian Orthodox Church distanced itself from the statement made by Bishop Grigorije, describing them as “exclusively of a political, even of a party character” while adding that the statements “have nothing to do with the faith in Christ the Savior or with the mission of the Orthodox Church.”

The Serbian Orthodox Church clarified that “they are exclusively personal attitude and an engagement of an individual, done not in capacity of a hierarch of the believing People of God, but exclusively in capacity of a citizen.”

‘’The Holy Synod of Bishops feels obliged to inform in this matter all those who the relating political statements attribute to the Serbian Orthodox Church or bring them in any way in connection with her, that they are exclusively personal attitude and an engagement of an individual, done not in capacity of a hierarch of the believing People of God, but exclusively in capacity of a citizen. To what an extent a political or a state-legal activity of bishops and clerics is allowed and blessed, the Church itself exclusively values and judges, autonomously and independently, on the basis of her canonical order’’ it is said in the announcement.