This is pretty wild... I get that Patriarch Bartholomew believes that Apostolic Canon 34 doesn't apply to him at the universal level, but apparently it doesn't apply at the Cypriot level either?
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And in your letter to the Ecumenical Patriarch, you informed him that you would commemorate the Metropolitan of Kiev.
Indeed. And I also thought it was a good thing, so that they [sc. the metropolitans of the Church of Cyprus] would not be disturbed and we would quarrel, not to inform them because if I did, they would have said no.
And as my own response, I would have said, “I’m not going to listen to you,” which would have made things worse. I say, “I will commemorate,” and they will protest and when they come to me to protest, I will tell them, “Brothers, because I did not intend to listen to you, I did not tell you. I apologize, but it is my right and I did it.”

Two Interviews with Abp. Chrysostomos II
The first interview, conducted by Apostolos Tomaras and originally published in the Cypriot edition of I Kathimerini, can be found in Greek here. Your Beatitude, why did you go ahead at this moment…
