. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church considers the structure created on the first day weekend at a "unifying Council" in Kiev, divisive. About it said Deputy head of the Department for external Church relations of the UOC Archpriest Nikolai Danilevich.

How to write a FR on Facebook, "the structure that was created yesterday, and there was a foreign body," the Church rejects it and does not accept.

Ukrainian authorities hope at the beginning of January to obtain from Constantinople the Tomos of autocephaly. Fifteenth day of December in Kiev was held the " unification Council ", which has chosen the head of the "new Church" - the Bishop of the UOC of the Kyiv Patriarchate of Epiphanius Dumenko.

then Poroshenko announced the creation of the " Ukrainian Autocephalous Church ". It was later announced that it will be called " the Orthodox Church of Ukraine."

the Orthodox Church believes void the canonical value for "Assembly" in Kiev, and the respect of the Epiphany in the Orthodox world called almost feasible. In addition, As said Commissioner of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, "unification Council" does not apply to Church life.



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