The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church declared invalid signature is his messenger under the so-called Rivne Memorandum calling for the establishment in Ukraine of a single local Ukrainian Orthodox Church ", because he believes that a dialogue of this kind is the internal affair of Orthodox believers.

first it was announced that the two hierarchs of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church withdrew their signatures from the received 13 November Memorandum. Then their signatures under the document, along with the authorized dissenting organizations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, was signed by the Metropolitan and Ostrog, Rivne Bartholomew and Metropolitan Sarny and Polesie Anatoly.

" We are experiencing due to problems of separation that exists between the Orthodox churches in Ukraine. Our Church encourages dialogue to achieve the unity of the Orthodox churches, but it is convinced that such a dialogue is an internal matter of the Orthodox believers in Ukraine ", - reported in the treatment of the UGCC, published on the Internet representation of the Lutsk Exarchate.

In the Church said, the question of Church unity must be solved only in the format of mutual respect, dialogue and reconciliation ", and similarly in the presence of the competent ecclesiastical authority.

" During the signing of the Memorandum were the local priest, the Abbot of the communities of the UGCC, Exactly. He had no authority to sign is not correlated with the Supreme ecclesiastical authority of the text, for which he made canonical warning. For this reason, any signatures of the authorized UGCC in this Memorandum are not valid ", - noted in the UGCC.

first it was rumored that the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko was released from the post of the head of the Rivne regional state administration Sergey Ribcage. On the first day of the week, the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine Onuphrios appealed to the head of the country with a complaint against the illegal actions of Ribcage and his subordinates, signed Rivne Memorandum on behalf of the secular power.

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