Sliven Arsenios responds to Zaporozhye Luka's reports on the Church of Bulgariatranslated

Metropolitan Sliven Mr. Arsenios expresses his opposition to the public intervention of the Metropolitan of Zaporizhia and Melitopol, Mr. Loukas (of the Church of Ukraine under the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine, Mr. Onufrios), with which accusations and accusations were made against the Hierarchs and the Holy Synod of the Church of Bulgaria. In his lengthy written statement under the title "Who gave Metropolitan Luke the right to judge the Holy Synod of the Church of Bulgaria?" His Eminence characterizes the intervention of Metropolitan Mr. Loukas as insulting to the dignity of the Bishops of the Church of Bulgaria and speaks of unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of an autocephalous and properly recognized Orthodox Church. As he points out, the references to "behind the scenes intrigues", pressures and coercion of the Patriarch of Bulgaria Mr. Daniel by the majority of the Holy Synod do not constitute a defense of the Patriarch, but an insult both to him and to the entire Church of Bulgaria.

“This is not a defense of the Patriarch. It is an insult to him and to the entire Orthodox Church of Bulgaria", he emphasizes...