Baptize “True Orthodox” when they join us! – 2020 Decision of the Moscow Patriarchate

Keep in mind, the Moscow Patriarchate has explicated stated it recognizes the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church…

 

Moscow Patriarchate
Chancellery
17 July 2020
No. 01/3154

 

TO ALL DIOCESAN HIERARCHS

Circular letter for execution

Subject: On the practice of receiving laypeople from certain schisms

 

Your Eminences and Graces, dear Vladykas!

In connection with inquiries received from dioceses, I inform you that laypeople joining the Church from such schismatic communities as: the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” the “Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate,” the “Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church,” as well as varieties of the so-called “True Orthodox Church,” are to be received through the Sacrament of Baptism, if such laypeople were not baptized in the Orthodox Church prior to joining the aforementioned schismatic communities.

With love in the Lord,
Dionysius,
Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate
Metropolitan of Voskresensk

 

Russian source: https://rocor-observer.livejournal.com/323484.html