Crisis of OCU: Why Epiphany cheated Filaret

Filaret is trying to take power from Epiphany and restore the Kiev Patriarchate, which still legally exists. The “honorary patriarch” no longer wants to be honorary but active and, therefore, talks about the lies and intrigues that accompanied the creation of the OCU.

It turned out that Filaret colluded with Poroshenko and Epiphany in order to deceive Patriarch Bartholomew before the “Unification Council”: they agreed that Epiphany Dumenko, an elected “primate” of the OCU, would be a purely decorative figure, while in reality Filaret would continue to lead it.

But everything turned out differently. Poroshenko with Epiphany tricked the "elder" and decided that Epiphany would manage the OCU for real. At the Synod of the OCU, Epiphany even tried to pension Filaret off. But it was not that easy.

All this is not a script of the adventure film – this is an everyday life of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

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