NgoNovemba 22 iSinodi Engcwele ye-Patriarchate yase-Alexandria yahlangana ngaphansi kobuholi bukaPatriarch Theodore II esigodlweni sePatriarchal "St. George” e-Old Cairo futhi waxoxa ngezinkinga zokuphila kwesonto ezibangelwa ukungena okungeyona ingxenye yencwadi yeBhayibheli ye-Moscow Patriarchate endaweni yokulawula yeSonto Lase-Alexandria e-Afrika.
UPatriarch wadonsela ukunaka emfanekisweni wokubiza lo mhlangano weSinodi Esingcwele ngqo kule ndawo engcwele, lapho kungcwatshwa khona abaningi ababengaphambi kwakhe ababevikela ubunye namalungelo e-Patriarchal See of Alexandria.
UMbhishobhi wabikela ababhishobhi ngakho konke osekwenziwe kulo nyaka kusukela ngoJanuwari kuze kube manje kuzo zonke izigaba zenkonzo yakhe yobupapa.
Ngemuva kwalokho iSinodi Esingcwele yacubungula kabanzi nangokujula udaba lokungena okungeyona ingxenye yencwadi yeBhayibheli yeBandla LaseRussia endaweni engokomoya neyobufundisi yePatriarchate yase-Alexandria ezwenikazi lase-Afrika, eyenziwa futhi yadidiyelwa nguMetropolitan Leonid (Gorbachev), ebizwa ngokuthi. "I-Patriarchal Exarch ye-Afrika" ye-Patriarch yaseMoscow.
Ngemva kwengxoxo iSinodi Esingcwele saqhubeka nokususa lowo owayeyi-Klinsk Metropolitan Leonidas esikhundleni sakhe sobubhishobhi ngenxa yokwephula kwakhe umthetho ongcwele, okuhlanganisa: ukuhlasela indawo yoMbhishobhi wasendulo wase-Alexandria, ukusabalalisa ama-antiminsi, amafutha angcwele, ukufumbathisa abefundisi bendawo, kuhlanganise nabaxoshiwe, ukudala. ukuhlukana kwesonto kanye namaqembu, i-ethnophiletism, njll. I-Holy of the Church of Alexandria nayo yalahla "imibono emisha yezobufundisi nezombusazwe" yokunakekelwa komfundisi "wezwe laseRussia" kuwo wonke amazwekazi ngesisekelo sobuzwe.
Ekugcineni, ngemuva kokunganakwa isikhathi eside nokuthula kukaPatriarch Kirill waseMoscow ngemibhikisho ebhaliwe eyathunyelwa kuye nguMbhishobhi wase-Alexandria emcela ukuthi ahoxise imizimba yakhe “e-exarchical” e-Afrika, iSinodi Esingcwele sePatriarchate yase-Alexandria yanquma ukuyeka ukukhuluma Igama likaPatriarch waseMoscow ku-diptychs yalo yokukhulekela isikhathi esingashiwongo.
Kuze kube manje, i-Moscow Patriarchate kuphela enqume ukumisa ukukhuluma kwabo bonke ababhishobhi abaqaphela iSonto Lobu-Orthodox elizimele. Ukraine, kuyilapho la masonto, ngakolunye uhlangothi, eqhubeka ekhuluma ngoMbhishobhi WaseMoscow phakathi nezinkonzo zaphezulu njengophawu lokuthi akuwona aphula ubunye beSonto Bomthendeleko. I-Patriarchate yase-Aleksandria yaba yisonto lokuqala ukumisa ukukhulunywa kwe-Liturgical Patriarch of Moscow.
