We respect the Patriarch of Constantinople as the first in honor, but we are against viewing him as ‘Pope of the East’

ImageInterview 28 May 2007 - In anticipation of a regular meeting of the Joint Orthodox-Catholic Theological Commission to take place in Italy, the Russian Orthodox Church representative to European international organizations Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria, in his interview with the Interfax-Religion, has warned in advance that at the forthcoming meeting the Moscow Patriarchate intends to assert its own view of the problem of primacy and conciliarity in church authority.

Click here to read the transcript of the interview at Interfax-Religion.com (a new browser window will open).