. on the "unification Council" in Kiev arrived two hierarchs of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, shall be notified on the portal of the Religious information service of Ukraine.

"Among the members of the Council have already noticed 2 of the bishops of the UOC: the Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi Alexander (drabynko) and Metropolitan Simeon of Vinnytsia ", - writes portal.

Both Bishop and first spoke in support of autocephaly. The Metropolitan Simeon recognized that the decisions of the Holy Synod, which condemned the actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, mandatory for all the hierarchs, clergy and faithful of the UOC.

Today in Kiev held a "unification Council" initiated by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew. He is obliged to elect a new Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and accepting its Charter, a draft of which has already prepared in Constantinople. In the future, the head of the new Church required to obtain from Constantinople the Tomos of autocephaly, which has long been seeking the Kiev authorities.

The canonical UOC said he was not going to participate in this event. More than 50 bishops returned the invitation to the " Cathedral ".

in the ROC actions of Constantinople, intending to provide non-canonical Autocephalous Church in Ukraine, called split and severed Eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople on the canonical territory, including Ukraine and Belarus. Later on the gap of communication told by the UOC.



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