In Belarus called the "new Church" in the Ukraine, schismatic
. The Belarusian Orthodox Church (BOC) considers the "new Church" in Ukraine divisive. About it said Last news the head of the Synodal information Department of the Belarusian Orthodox Church Archpriest Sergiy Lepin.
according to his statement, contacts with its representatives " is possible only in a civil term, and God forbid that they were neighborly ".
The priest also welcomed the message of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko about the fact that the Authorities will not prosecute the commissioners of the canonical Orthodox Church.
"But the main thing - That it was not only empty promises," said the priest.
He expressed the hope that Kiev under persecution understand " not only the physical and economic violence, But also information and political aggression, which the supporters of the Metropolitan Patriarchate must also be protected."
The Ukrainian authorities hope at the beginning of January to obtain from Constantinople the Tomos of autocephaly, But it have the ability to only give the Primate the " United Church ".
To elect him, in Kiev, fifteen Dec organized a " unity Council ". According to the Ukrainian media, "Cathedral" profit only two messengers of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, who did not want to participate in this event.
"Unification Council" was elected head of the "new Church" of the Epiphany Dumenko - "Metropolitan" non-canonical Church structures.
the Orthodox Church believes void the canonical value for "Assembly" in Kiev, and the possibility of recognizing the Epiphany in the Orthodox world called almost feasible.
The decision of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to begin providing non-canonical autocephaly churches in Ukraine, the Russian Orthodox Church called schisms. The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church fifteen Oct announced the severance of communication with Constantinopole throughout the canonical territory of the ROC, including Ukraine and Belarus. The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church also called canonically void, and saw politics in the abolition of Constantinople by the act of 1686 on the transfer of the Kyiv Metropolitanate to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. Metropolitan Hilarion said that Constantinople lost its right to be called the coordinating centre of Orthodoxy. In the ROC I hope that Constantinople will change the Decision to give the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church. As long as this does not happen, It will be split.