Filaret explains why he refused to join Phanar in 2008
Filaret Denisenko. Photo: cerkva.info
The head of the now liquidated UOC-KP Filaret Denisenko explained on the air of Channel 4 that he was not satisfied with the previous attempt to legalize the Ukrainian schism, made in 2008.
“Viktor Andreevich (Yushchenko - Ed.) agreed that the Kyiv Metropolis became part of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Not the autocephalous Church, but the part. And when the delegation of Patriarch Bartholomew proposed the text of such an agreement to us, I said that such a position was unacceptable to us.
Then I gathered the entire Bishops Council, and we, in the presence of Viktor Andreevich, said that we were rejecting such autocephaly,” said Filaret, who still calls himself “His Holiness Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine”.
Earlier, the UOJ wrote about whether there was repentance in the letter of the schismatics, which they sent to the head of the Phanar in 2008 and on the basis of which they were allegedly "legally" accepted into Eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 2018.
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