UOC banned to serve the bishops participating in the "unification Council"
. The Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was deprived of the six dioceses of the bishops who participated in the "unification Council" in Kiev.
"The Synod dismissed from the leadership of the diocese, and forbade the priesthood to the Metropolitan Vinnitsa and Barsky Simeon and Bishop of the Kyiv metropolis, Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky and Vishnevsky Alexander" - said in the decision.
the head of the Synodal information and education Department of the Archbishop Clement said the Metropolitan, Simeon (Shostatsky) and Alexander (drabinko) " went into schism ". Vicar of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Metropolitan Pavel said that they would be defrocked. Only 90 of the UOC bishops.
The Bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky was the Archimandrite Dionysius (Pylypchuk), a cleric of the Kiev diocese. Bishop Borodyansky Varsonofy will replace the Metropolitan Simeon.
Also for violation of the oath to serve, banned the Archimandrite Dorotheos (Markevych), Archpriest Peter Zuev, Archpriest Bogdan Gulyamova and archdeacon Rostislav Sparrow.
The Ukrainian authorities hope at the beginning of January to obtain from Constantinople the Tomos of autocephaly. In Kiev fifteen Dec passed the " unification Council ", which has chosen the head of the "new Church" - the Bishop of the UOC of the Kyiv Patriarchate of Epiphanius Dumenko.
then Poroshenko announced the creation of the " Ukrainian Autocephalous Church ". It will be called " the Orthodox Church of Ukraine."
the Orthodox Church believes void the canonical value for "Assembly" in Kiev, and the respect of the Epiphany in the Orthodox world called almost feasible. In addition, as said Commissioner of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, "unification Council" does not apply to Church life.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church considers the structure created on the first day weekend at a "unifying Council" in Kiev, divisive.
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