The assembly of the Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) said the Council’s decisions on independence from the Moscow Patriarchate in May last year were correct. This is mentioned area UOC.
The statement states that after long constructive discussions, the Council participants – bishops, clergy, monks and parishioners – made a number of important decisions recorded in the Council resolution.
“The year of church life has testified to the correctness of the decisions of the Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church,” the UOC said in a statement.
The UOC Council, the highest governing body of the church, convened in Kiev on May 27, 2022, considered issues related to church life in the context of the Russian special operation in Ukraine. The military action “God’s ‘Thou shalt not kill!’ and he did not agree with the evaluations of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’ Kirill, especially Patriarch Kirill, who described the military operations in Ukraine as an attempt by “different forces” to pit the brothers against each other.
The Council adopted additions and amendments to the Statute of the administration of the UOC, which “speaks of the full independence and independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church”. Priest Andrei Pinchuk (UOC-MP) said, “Everything connecting the UOC and the Moscow Patriarchate has been removed. More details – in the material “Newspapers.Ru”.
Source: Gazeta
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