THE LOCAL ORTHODOX CHURCHES (PPC) ARE OBLIGED TO ACT ACCORDING TO THE GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ESTABLISHED IN THE PRE-CONCILIATION COMMISSION, AS A GENERAL PROCEDURE LAW FOR OBTAINING AUTOKEPHALITY, IMPLICITLY ALSO OF THE PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLEtranslated

The procedure for awarding tomos for autocephaly is regulated by a legal act and legal rules adopted at the Pre-Soviet Conference, which form part of the ecclesiastical law of the Orthodox Church. In the pre-council process, the procedure for awarding the tomos (decision) for autocephaly to the ecclesiastical autonomous region, in the preparatory period for the holding of the pan-Orthodox council in Crete, in 2016, was determined. The pre-council process is an initiative to enact the laws necessary for the holding of the Pan-Orthodox Council in Crete (already held, but it is void), by the Legislative-Legal Commission (Sepan-Orthodox Commission - Commission). From the Fifth Pre-Council Commission, the Fourth and Fifth Commissions deal with the granting of autocephaly and autonomy, and the ones held in 1993 and 2015, held in Chambéz (Switzerland, at the headquarters of the World Council of the Church, where the Orthodox Church has a permanent delegation [office] at the Ecumenical Council [Separatoslaven Sobor; n.b.

The Ecumenical Council is a legitimate institution, and the Ecumenical Patriarchate is an illegitimate self-assignment of prerogative]). At this Commission, it was determined that the canonical jurisdiction for declaring autocephaly rests with the Orthodox Council (holder of...