Named by the date of election of the new Primate of the UOC-MP
The Council of bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate for the election of a new head of the UOC will take place in Kyiv on August 13, said the press-service of the Church. As notified to the Internet representation of the UOC, " 7 July at the meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church chaired by the Locum Tenens of the Kiev Metropolitan of the Department of the Metropolitan of Chernivtsi and Bukovyna Onuphrius for the election of the new Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine, it was decided to convene the Council of bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Kyiv on 13 August 2014 ". Remember, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate died on the first day weekend at the 79-year life. Ukraine currently operates the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is a self-governing Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, and unrecognized by the world Orthodox Church - Kyivan Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. The Holy Synod of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate on February 24, decided to do a Commission for dialogue with these structures. Expressing condolences, the President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin said that " while in high positions in the Russian Orthodox Church and in the form of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church his Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr took care of the spiritual health of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, fought for the strengthening of the foundations of Orthodoxy, canonical unity of the Russian Orthodox Church ".