Triumph of UOC and disgrace of schismatics: whose prayers are heard by God

On June 25, festivities were held in Kiev, dedicated to St. Patron’s Day of His Beatitude Onuphriy and the fifth anniversary of his enthronement as Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Hierarchs of ten Local Orthodox Churches served at the Liturgy in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, along with the hierarchs of the UOC. All the hierarchs speak of the canonicity of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and its head, His Beatitude Onuphry. It would seem that all these words state the obvious, and there was no need to voice them. But it’s not quite true. These things are obvious to everyone in the Orthodox world, except for Phanar. After all, half a year ago, the head of Constantinople, Patriarch Bartholomew, claiming absolute primacy in the entire Orthodox world, officially declared that His Beatitude Onuphry was no longer the Metropolitan of Kiev, while the Church he heads no longer exists. But who, according to Patriarch Bartholomew in Ukraine, is the true primate of the true Church? This is Epiphany, who is not even a priest, let alone a bishop. And this is declared not by the Kremlin or even by the Russian Church. This is declared by Epiphany’s spiritual father, the person from whom Patriarch Bartholomew in October 2018 removed the anathema – Filaret Denisenko. Filaret: “If I was anathematized, then it means that all these bishops (OCU – Ed.) are invalid. And Epiphany is not only not a metropolitan – he is not even a priest.” In the structure of the OCU, which Phanar created in December 2018 and granted it the Tomos on autocephaly, events are happening you just get to call as a scandal. Filaret Denisenko said that the OCU is a structure subordinate to Constantinople, renounced the Tomos and re-established his Kiev Patriarchate. This could be called a split if the OCU were a canonical Church. But since the OCU is not considered as a Church in the Orthodox world, we can say that in Ukraine there occurred a split in the split. Materials of the Synodal Information and Education Department are used in the video.

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