Now the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia has also cut ties to the Constantinople Patriarchate

The Bishops’ Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) announced on October 19 that it, too, is suspending Eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople because of its plans to grant autocephaly (independence) to a new unified Ukrainian church. The ROCOR says it won’t re-establish ties to Constantinople until it “ceases its lawlessness.”

“The clergy of our church cannot serve in any parish of the Constantinople Church or invite the clergy of this church to serve in our churches,” the ROCOR said in an announcement published on its website.

At a meeting of its Holy Synod on October 15, the Russian Orthodox Church suspended Eucharistic communion with the Constantinople Patriarchate, after it revoked a decree transferring the Kyiv archdiocese to the Moscow Patriarchate and lifted the anathema on Ukraine's two noncanonical churches, thereby confirming its plans to grant autocephaly (independence) to a new unified Ukrainian church.

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia is a self-governing church within the Moscow Patriarchate. It includes dioceses in Germany, Great Britain, the U.S., Canada, and Argentina.