Attempts to split the Orthodox Church in Ukraine are linked to the political goals of the current authorities of the former Soviet republic. About this in an interview with the TV channel “Russia 24” said the head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. His words convey TASS Saturday, 20 November.
“There is only one goal – [быть] as far as possible from Russia and from the Russian Orthodox Church, and this is a political goal, not a spiritual one, ”he said. The patriarch added that for him there is no division into countries and peoples, but “there is the flock of the Russian Orthodox Church.”
In 2018, after the so-called unification council in Kiev, a church split took place in Ukraine. At the initiative of the then President Petro Poroshenko and with the participation of the Primate of the Constantinople Orthodox Church (KOC) Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, schismatic movements – the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate of the UOC-KP) – formed the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), which received from the KPTS Tomos of autocephaly and passed on to his subordination. Most of the world’s Orthodox churches, including the Russian Orthodox Church and its canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, did not recognize the new religious structure.
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