The Russian Orthodox Church said the Istanbul-based Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew did not challenge, but bowed to the decision of the Turkish authorities to reconvert the iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Russia´s news agency RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday.
“Some say Patriarch Bartholomew could have prevented the transformation of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, but he did not,” the agency quoted Ilarion Volokolamskiy, the chair of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, as saying on Montenegrin programme E-Litja.
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