August 13, 2012
A Statement by His
Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion, concerning the Entrance of the
Theotokos Monastery
On Monday, August 13, the First Hierarch of the Russian Church
Abroad, His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America & New
York, released a statement regarding the Entrance of the Theotokos
Monastery in Maryland.
Dear
in the Lord Reverend Fathers,
Beloved brothers and
sisters,
As of July 17/30,
according to Directive
№
07.113.12, the Monastery of
the Entrance of the Theotokos, a women’s community located in Union
Bridge, Maryland, is no longer a monastic institution of the Russian
Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. Certain spiritual practices and
references to spiritual authority contained within the charter of
the monastery are at variance with the norms and traditions of
ROCOR. We have released the convent to seek canonical reception into
the ecclesiastical jurisdiction whence they originally came, a
diocese of the Church of Greece.
+HILARION
First Hierarch of the
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad
Metropolitan of Eastern
America and New York
Met. Hilarion's statement in pdf format
Directive № 07.113.12
in pdf format
Media Office of the Eastern American Diocese
