Vigilyansky: Metropolitan Vladimir has always defended the Church unity
Metropolitan of Kiev And all Ukraine, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Vladimir, who died in the morning in Kyiv, always firmly defended the Church unity, values of Orthodoxy And has not yielded to the influence of different political forces, said on the first day weekend Last news, former head of the Patriarchal press service And the rector of the Church of the Holy Martyr Barbara at Moscow state University, Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky, a private person who knew the head of the UOC.
Metropolitan Vladimir died on the first day weekend early in the morning on the 79 th year of a life after long illness. At the end of June, the Metropolitan was bleeding. It claimed that his condition is stable grave, and a week Later it worse.
" It was a very spiritual person who placed the spiritual problems above policy. Because of this the Orthodox Church in Ukraine (Moscow Patriarchate) has survived And continues to be the most numerous And temples, And the parishioners (Ukraine). And he was always having trouble with policies that all the time pushing him to take political decisions. He very firmly And steadily always stood for the preservation of the Orthodox Church, " said Archpriest Vigilyansky.
Metropolitan of Kyiv And all Ukraine Volodymyr (Sabodan) was the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church since may 1992.
Ukraine currently operates the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which is a self-governing Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, and unrecognized by the world Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) And the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC).