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The Orthodox Church in America, considered an independent part of the Moscow Patriarchate, does not recognize the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. They say they are faithful to Onuphrius.
This is what the letter of the Holy Synod of Bishops of this church, published on his website, says. declares that he considers the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate and supports Metropolitan Onuphri
We refuse to recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church with some of our sister churches. not to make any changes to the diptych, noting that the Orthodox Church in America has not officially been proposed to effect such changes,
– the letter reads as follows.
The exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Archbishop Daniel of the Ukrainian Orthodox Pamphylian Church in the United States believes that, even though the Russian Orthodox Church does not recognize the & patr [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[autocephalyoftheUkrainianChurchitcanberecognizedbyotherchurchesdependentonMoscowButaccordingtohimittakestimeforthat
What is this church?
In 1970, the Orthodox Church in America received autocephaly from the Russian Orthodox Church. It is not recognized by the churches of Constantinople, Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Romania, Cyprus, Ellada and Albania. The aforementioned Churches consider the CAC as an autonomous part of the Moscow Patriarchate. The autocephaly of the CAC is recognized by the Russian, Georgian, Polish, Bulgarian and Czech churches. Led by Blessed Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of all of America and Canada, Tikhon. Currently, the Autocephalous Orthodox Church in America has more than 500 parishes, 19 monasteries, 11 bishops and 550 priests
How was created the Orthodox Church of Ukraine? On October 9, the Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate was inaugurated in Istanbul. On October 10, at this meeting, the religious heard a report from the messengers of Patriarch Bartholomew (exarchs) who had spent nearly a month in Ukraine. According to the results of their report, Ukraine authorized the creation of a single local church
On December 15, at the Council of Unity, the Orthodox bishops announced the Unification of Ukrainian churches within the unified independent Church . His official name sounds like – Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The Metropolitan of Pereyaslavl and Bila Tserkva Epiphany become head of the CPSU . The Kiev-domed Mikhailovsky Cathedral of Kiev will be the Cathedral of the PCU.
After the creation of the CPU, the parishes of the UOC-MP temples began to move under its jurisdiction. Ukraine has also approved a law according to which the UOC deputy should be renamed Russian Orthodox Church.
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