Signed a Memorandum of understanding with the secessionists, the hierarchs of the UOC-MP withdrew their signatures
The second Hierarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan of Sarny and Polesie Anatoly, After the Metropolitan and Ostrog, Rivne Bartholomew withdrew its signature from a Memorandum calling for the establishment in Ukraine of a single local Ukrainian Orthodox Church ", according to a report Sarny diocese.
Metropolitan and Ostrog, Rivne Bartholomew on Wednesday withdrew his signature, saying about the fact that supporters of the Kyiv Patriarchate to continue to attempt to grips temples of the UOC-MP and not stop committing various provocations, RIA " Novosti." After reviewing the statement... Metropolitan and Ostrog, Rivne in relation to the breach provisions of the Memorandum by the representatives of the Kyivan Patriarchate, which was adopted by heads of religious organizations in the region for peaceful settlement of conflicts, and the present offenses share the concern and the will of the Metropolitan Bartholomew. Showing brotherly solidarity, withdraw its signature under the Memorandum, according to the statement of Metropolitan Anatolia. First it was announced that on November 13, at the initiative of local authorities in Rivne oblast issued a document calling for the establishment of a single local Ukrainian Orthodox Church ". Their signatures under the Memorandum, along with the authorized dissident organizations, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, put two of UOC-Moscow Patriarchate. In the Russian Orthodox Church has expressed doubt that the hierarchs of the UOC-MP willingly signed Rivne Memorandum. So, the head of the Synodal information Department Vladimir Legoyda said that " it is crystal clear that such documents are signed under fierce political pressure ".
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