During a visit to Moscow, Moldovan President Voronin was given on January 21 an award from the Russian Orthodox Church in recognition of his "outstanding work to strengthen the unity of Orthodox Christian peoples". Voronin said on that occasion that the establishment in October 2007 of three new dioceses by the Bessarabian Orthodox Church is "part of Romania's aggressive policy against the Moldovan state."
Patriarch Aleksy II said the creation of new dioceses "was an anticanonical act of intrusion on the territory of another Orthodox Church ."
Patriarch Aleksy II said the creation of new dioceses "was an anticanonical act of intrusion on the territory of another Orthodox Church ."