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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. 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 also maintains 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 years, the relationship with the Cyprianite synod has been strained, and ROCOR has reportedly received threatening letters from the synod of Metropolitan Cyprian regarding the rapprochement between ROCOR and the Moscow Patriarchate, which both Russian bodies regard as an internal matter of the Russian church. 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.
==The Episcopacy==
