I may be wrong, but my understanding is that the Catholic Church will give the Holy Communion to any Orthodox when they ask for it. The instruction to the Orthodox is to obey their bishops, however, if they ask, they will be given Communion.
“I may be wrong, but my understanding is that the Catholic Church will give the Holy Communion to any Orthodox when they ask for it.”
I think you are right though around here that has been stopped after a complaint from the Metropolitan to the Cardinal.
“The instruction to the Orthodox is to obey their bishops, however, if they ask, they will be given Communion.”
I suggest that one hierarch giving communion to another hierarch is a completely different order of magnitude. For example, if you or I were to go to each others’ parishes and receive communion, we wouldn’t be establishing “communion”; that’s a relationship between hierarchs exemplified by actually receiving communion. But this Romanian thing is between hierarchs.