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ROCOR's status with regard to [[full communion]] is not entirely clear-cut. There was never a formal declaration of a break in communion made between ROCOR and other Orthodox churches, though in many dioceses [[concelebration]] has been suspended. In others, concelebration is active. A formal declaration of breaking communion with the OCA was issued by the ROCOR Synod after the Moscow Patriarchate issued the Tomos of Autocephaly to the OCA. (See: [[ROCOR and OCA]].) Generally Orthodox Christians from all local Orthodox churches are welcome to the chalice in ROCOR churches. There has never been a declaration from the ROCOR synod that grace does not exist in the [[New Calendar]] jurisdictions, in spite of statements to the contrary by the followers of Holy Transfiguation Monastery in Boston when they were still with the Synod.
ROCOR formerly maintained communion with a few [[Old Calendarist]] jurisdictions, including the [[Holy Synod in Resistance]] (True Orthodox Church of Greece, so-called "Cyprianites"), the [[Old Calendar Orthodox Church of Romania]] (Synod of Metropolitan Vlasie), and the [[Old Calendar Orthodox Church of Bulgaria]] (Bishop Photii). In recent years2006, the relationship communion with the Cyprianite synod has been strained[[Holy Synod in Resistance]] was suspended, and after the ROCOR has reportedly Synod received threatening letters a letter from Metropolitan Cyprial of Oropos and Fili stating that Metropolitan Laurus' name had been "struck from the diptych." [http://www.synod.com/synod /eng2006/2ensynodmeeting.html [Decision of Metropolitan Cyprian regarding the rapprochement between Synod of Bishops]] The ROCOR still maintains communion with the Synod of Metropolitan Vlasie and the Moscow Patriarchate, which both Russian bodies regard as an internal matter with Bishop Photii of the Russian churchTriaditza. Many of the clergy and the faithful of ROCOR believe the Cyprianites to be [[schism]]atics and that [[concelebration]]s with them should be severed, though this attitude does not extend to the Old Calendarist jurisdictions of Romania and Bulgaria.
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