"Circus and ridicule": the governor of the Kievo-Pechersk Lavra commented on the grant to the Ukrainian Church Tomas – Ukran

Ministers of the Moscow Patriarchate told the Russian publication that there would be no dialogue with the Ukrainian Church

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As a rule, Tomos is not an independence, they say. The Ukrainian church is now subordinate to Constantinople.

"If we have autocephaly, there can be no stavropigian monasteries, temples of Istanbul, which are not all created for that." We can not have autocephaly in Ukraine – it's like nobody, it's a circus and a mockery, "said the governor of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra .

On January 5, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew signed Tomos, who granted the Independent status in the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, whose creation was announced at the Cathedral of Unity. December 15, 2018 . According to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which gives autocephaly, has seized millions of followers of Ukraine as a true mother church, in contrast to their "mother-in-law" . The next day, January 6 Tomos of Autocephalous was officially handed over to the predecessor of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine .

At the Cathedral on December 15, representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the head of the UOC-Kyivan Patriarchate, the UAOC, the Metropolitan Patriarchate UOC-Moscow Simeon and Alexander, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, President of Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubius. Following the vote, the candidacy of Metropolitan Pereyaslavsky and Bila Tserkva to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate and the Viceroy of Patriarch Filaret Epiphany were supported. After the elections Epiphanes becomes Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine . In turn, the metropolitan deputy of the UOC, Onufriy lost his status . The UOC MP himself should be renamed ROC in Ukraine in accordance with the decision of the Verkhovna Rada. At the end of the legal proceedings, a specific deadline is set.

After holding the cathedral in different regions of Ukraine, parishes began to move from the UOC-MP to the CPC. The largest number of transitions in the Vinnytsia region. There is also a parish transition in the Dnipropetrovsk region, which is the first finding on the territory of the left bank of Ukraine.

Changes in religious life caused a strong dissatisfaction not only within the clergy of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine, but also within the Russian Orthodox Church. In particular, in a letter to Bartholomew, the patriarch of the COR, Cyril, wrote that the Cathedral of Unity was "a set of schismatics grouped under the name of the Holy Church of Constantinople". The leader of the ROC asks Bartholomew to stop communicating with the "scholars" and abandon the "political adventure of their legalization". It is notably the honorable Patriarch Filaret, presided over by UOC-KP and considered in Moscow as a "schismatic". In addition, the situation around the life of the church was discussed in the RF Security Council.

However, the strong reaction of the Russian Orthodox Church during religious events did not affect the CCP 's affirmation process. According to Metropolitan Epifaniya, all decisions will be based on the rules of status, which are prescribed in Tomos. "The first decision we need, of course, is to form the respective governing bodies, because at the Unity Council, we have approved the status, but it will be approved by Thomas, because the status is based on the norms prescribed in Tomos: After receiving Thomas, we will become a complete autocephalous orthodox church, which has been recognized by the Universal Orthodox Church.In the future, we will try to communicate with other local churches recognizing the decision of the patriarch ecumenical ", said the Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.