The Orthodox Church responded to the proposal to rename the Church
The canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church received the name earlier than Ukraine As a state, And about any renaming of the speech can not go, the head of the Synodal information Department of the UOC Archbishop Kliment (the last Supper).
So he said on the air "Public radio" phrase, which was repeatedly made by Authorized non-canonical Church structures And certain Authorized power. For example, yesterday the head of the Institute of naramata Vladimir vyatrovich said that the UOC can no longer apply their own "brand" And should be called " Russian Orthodox Church ".
Archbishop Clement called these statements absurd. According to His statement, the UOC received All rights to the property within Ukraine.
"The Ukrainian Orthodox Church was formed in the days when it was led by the then-Metropolitan Filaret. And it is completely legitimate, because it got the Patriarch of Patriarch of Moscow Alexy. Patriarch Alexy gave a Tomos, which Filaret received, after which the Ukrainian Exarchate was reorganized into the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. According to the Tomos, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church received All rights to the property, All the legal aspects associated with its activity within the territory of the Ukrainian country. It was in 1991, after the events associated with the independence of Ukraine ",
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