Filaret withdraws from OCU and creates UOC KP “Synod” out of five “bishops”

The head of the UOC KP Filaret Denisenko. Photo: "BBC Ukraine".

The head of the Kiev Patriarchate Filaret has created the “Holy Synod” of the UOC KP, which includes all five “bishops” of this structure, as reported at a briefing broadcast by "TSN".

On June 25, 2019, during a press conference at his residence, “Patriarch” Filaret of Kiev announced the resumption of the activity of the UOC KP “Synod”: “There is the Synod ... it includes all the bishops who are in the Kiev Patriarchate. Five".

To the remark of the journalist that in accordance with the Statute of the UOC KP, there should be 12 bishops in the Synod, Filaret assured that “there will be 12 and even more”. However, he did not specify when the “ordination” of the following “bishops” was planned.

In addition, the head of the Kiev Patriarchate Filaret stressed that the UOC KP is an independent, including from the OCU, “Church”.

Also, “Patriarch” of Kiev stated that “we dissociate ourselves from this so-called OCU”. According to him, all decisions of the OCU do not concern the UOC KP: "Their decisions do not concern us."

Earlier, the UOJ wrote that the "Holy Synod" of OCU took away the Kiev "eparchy" from Filaret.

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