In Kiev held a "unity Council"
. in St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev began the "unification Council" to create a "new Church" in Ukraine, said the administration of President Petro Poroshenko.
"in St. Sophia Cathedral continues, which creates a single local Ukrainian Orthodox Church ", - reported in the report of the President's administration in Twitter.
Attached to the post first picture of " Cathedral ". Her at the table sitting in the Presidium, for example, Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, Exarch of Constantinople, Archbishop Daniel, and a leader of the non-canonical Church structures Filaret Denisenko and Macarius.
The Cathedral is held on the initiative of Peter Poroshenko and the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew. He is obliged to elect a new Primate of the Ukrainian Church and accepting its Charter, a draft of which has already prepared in Constantinople.
it is planned that the new head of the Church will receive from Constantinople the Tomos of autocephaly, which the Ukrainian authorities are seeking for a long time.
The Patriarchate of Constantinople announced the start of procedures for the provision of non-canonical Autocephalous Church in Ukraine in mid-October. At the same time It cancelled the act of 1686 on the transfer of the Kyiv Metropolitanate to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate lifted the anathema imposed by the Russian Orthodox Church on the Ukrainian schismatics - the head of the "Kiev Patriarchate" Filaret and the head of the non-canonical Ukrainian Autocephalous Church Macarius.
UOC called the action a flagrant infractions of canonical rules and did not want to participate in the " unification Council ". As stated, in the Cathedral of St. Sophia arrived only two bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Alexander of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vinnytsia Metropolitan Simeon.
in the ROC actions of Constantinople were also considered by the division and severed Eucharistic communion with him throughout the canonical territory, including Ukraine and Belarus. Later on the gap of communication told in the UOC, and in the Russian Church abroad.
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