The rest of the Moscow Patriarchate should be called the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Patriarch Filaret

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UOC-KP is preparing for a possible granting of autocephaly in July of this year.

In the case of creating a Unified local Church in Ukraine this Union will be the largest, as will be composed of the UOC-KP, UAOC and the individual bishops of the UOC-MP.

In an interview with “Ukrainian truth” said the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, Patriarch Filaret.

“If we can get Tomos, the Ukrainian Church will be United. And not just one – and the biggest. Now the Kyiv Patriarchate compared to Moscow twice,” he said.

According to Patriarch Filaret, “the rest of the Moscow Patriarchate should be called the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine.”

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“The rights to use the same as the Ukrainian Church, because the law is for all churches and religions in Ukraine alone. But it will be a relatively small Church and the impact it will have,” he added.

We will remind, the decision on the granting of independence to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church can declare during the celebration 1030-anniversary of the Baptism of Rus in July of this year. According to Petro Poroshenko, during a meeting in Istanbul on 9 April with the Ecumenical Patriarch stressed that in case of joint appeals to the Ukrainian President, Parliament, the Church hierarchy, the Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate is ready to provide the Ukrainian Church the Tomos of autocephaly.

In turn, the head of the Department for external Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Hilarion believes a possible solution to the Ecumenical Patriarch “non-canonical”.

The rest of the Moscow Patriarchate should be called the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Patriarch Filaret

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