Metropolitan Filaret did not exclude unity with the UOC-Moscow Patriarchate
The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of the Kyiv Patriarchate Filaret believes that it is possible unity With the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate in the future, stating that in society the process has already begun.
in 1992, Metropolitan Filaret (Denysenko), who occupied Kiev before the pulpit, and after the death of the Patriarch of Moscow And all Russia Pimen in 1990 was elected Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal throne, not content provided by the Ukrainian Church independence And autonomy in the management of the Moscow Patriarchate, first asked in a persistent form for her autocephaly, not having received no consent, created And legally registered so-called Kiev Patriarchate. None of the canonical local Orthodox Churches, its legality is not recognized.
"With the Moscow Patriarchate reunion will be. Not only will the top, not from the hierarchy of the clergy, and from the people. And this process has already begun With the Autocephalous Church And the Moscow Patriarchate. We have to wait. God will bring all to unity, " said Filaret in the air.
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