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Ukraine has created an independent Orthodox church and elected its head

The unifying council, which took place in Kiev on December 15, voted to create an autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox church.

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Metropolitan Epifaniy (Dumenko) of Pereyaslavl and Belotserkovsky was elected primate of the church - Metropolitan of Kyiv, writes with the BBC.

“I congratulate everyone on the creation of the autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which just took place in Hagia Sophia,” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko commented on the results of the council, speaking on the square in front of the temple.

“This is a church without Putin, this is a church without Kirill, a church without prayer for the Russian government and Russian troops, because the Russian government and Russian troops are killing Ukrainians. But this is a church with God,” added the head of Ukraine.

In the morning, thousands of people gathered on the Sofia square, the square was cordoned off by metal detectors, and police squads were on duty.

Many people came in organized groups, entire wards, some came themselves. Everyone is talking about supporting the idea of ​​an independent church.

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“Ukraine was not, is not and will not be the canonical territory of the Russian Church,” Poroshenko emphasized.

The president thanked everyone who came to the Sofia square:

“We are united by the understanding that major state issues are being resolved now. We are finally acquiring spiritual independence, which can be compared to political independence,” he said.

Who was at the cathedral

Earlier invitations to participate in the cathedral were sent to the bishops of all Orthodox churches existing in Ukraine: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP), which is a structural part of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), as well as the Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (UOC KP) and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church ( UAOC).

Long before its convening, this council became a stumbling block in relations between the Russian Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, who had previously announced his intention to grant independence to the united Ukrainian church. As a result, the Moscow Patriarchate severed relations with the Church of Constantinople.

The ROC and the UOC MP strongly oppose the creation of an autocephalous church in Ukraine, independent of Moscow, and accuse the Patriarch of Constantinople, who is going to give the Ukrainian church autocephalous, of exceeding authority.

The UOC-MP decided on the inadmissibility of the participation of its representatives in the assembly.

But on the cathedral all the same arrived two bishops of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate: Metropolitan Simeon of Vinnitsa and Bar, as well as Metropolitan Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky and Vishnevsky, said Taras Antoshevsky, director of the Religious Information Service of Ukraine. Later, the head of the synodal information and educational department of the UOC, Archbishop Kliment, stated that Metropolitans Alexander and Simeon no longer have anything to do with the UOC-MP. According to him, the hierarchs who took part in the unification Council “create a new Church and move there.”

On Friday, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' addressed the primates of local Orthodox churches, Pope Francis and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, saying that at the council “the largest religious denomination in the country should be replaced by some new religious organization,” and accusing the Ukrainian authorities of an attempt to use the Church in achieving political goals and election campaigns.

The UOC-MP also complained of persecution, pressure and provocations against their priests by the Ukrainian authorities.

Recall at the end of November Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate approved the text of Tomos about autocephaly of the future united Ukrainian church, as well as a draft of its charter.

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