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schismatics, is by no means a sign of claims to the canonical territory of the ancient Church of
Alexandria. It pursues one goal only – to give canonical protection to those Orthodox clerics in Africa who do not wish to be involved in the unlawful legitimization of the schism. We call upon His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and the archpastors of the Most Holy Church of Alexandria to renounce their support for the Ukrainian schism and return to the canonical path in order to preserve the unity of the Holy Orthodoxy.".
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them. We are pioneers in this business, so we carefully and scrupulously try to develop the most comfortable lecture courses and programs for students who come to us in Moscow. The
African continent has 1.3 billion people and 54 countries with official sovereign status. There are many different kinds of Christian and pseudo-Christian formations and sects on the territory of these countries, many of which, after the formation of the Patriarchal Exarchate in Africa, began to ask to us."
381:(Turkey) and during the liturgy, which was led by Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, served with the head of the so-called "Orthodox Church of Ukraine", and then during a separate meeting with him assured him of his strong support. To date, none of the bishops of the Alexandrian Orthodox Church has expressed disagreement with the actions of Patriarch Theodore to support the schism in Ukraine.
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Patriarchate in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, the second — the stauropegion parish of the Moscow Patriarchate in South Africa. The diocesan bishop of the North African Diocese was determined to have the title "of Cairo and North Africa", the South African diocese - "of
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