The ROCOR Council of Bishops rejected Metropolitan Sergii’s act of
suspension of the ROCOR hierarchy on this day in 1934.
Metropolitan Sergii (Stragorodskii, d. 1944) was a great canonist and
ecclesiologist with a clear, logical thought process. He considered
himself a link preserving canonical succession within the Russian
Church. Therefore, he suspended th…
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