ORTHODOX METROPOLITAN IN ROME TODAY SAYS BELIEF IN EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS IS OBLIGATORY FOR ALL IN THE CHURCH

The Orthodox Metropolitan in Rome said that belief in the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus was obligatory for all  in the Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Galktion confirmed that the dogma  says that everyone needs to enter the Orthdox Church for salvation.
He was speaking with me about 45 minutes back outside the Basilica of San Clemente,Rome.He was there to attend a religious service of the Orthodox Bulgarian community  in a side altar of the Church.
Here is the ex cathedra dogma that the Orthodox Church also affirms like the Roman Catholic Church.

• “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved.” (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215.)

• “We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302.)
• “The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.” (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.) - from the website Catholicism.org and “No Salvation outside the Church”: Link List, the Three Dogmatic Statements Regarding EENS) http://nosalvationoutsideofthecatholicchurch.blogspot.com/

 The ex cathedra dogma is clear: de facto everyone needs to enter the Church.The dogma does not say only those who are educated need to enter the Church.The dogma does not say that those who are in invincible ignorance do not have to enter the Church.

We know God is merciful and those who are in invincible ignorance will be known only to Him and he will judge them accordingly.