ROC called Tomos for the Ukrainian Church "trying to steal Christmas"
Kiev authorities are trying to steal Christmas from the million believers in Ukraine with the help of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, said the head of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate on relations of the Church with society and mass-media Vladimir Legoyda.
before Bartholomew signed the Tomos of autocephaly of the "new Church" of Ukraine. The ceremony is scheduled for the sixth of January.
"Tomos - paper, which is the result of irrepressible political and personal ambitions," - said Legoyda Telegram channel.
He noticed that the document signed in violation of the canons and has no canonical force.
"As if either try some Ukrainian politicians with the help of the Istanbul Patriarch to steal Christmas from the million faithful in Ukraine - it will eventually come," said Legoyda.
Archbishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Clement Supper said Fins news that the granting of autocephaly by Constantinople, the "new Church" in Ukraine is non-compliance of all the patristic and Apostolic rules.
"The Church did not create the patriarchs and the presidents. The Church was created by God, and no one has the right to create a fresh Church, " He said.
the Orthodox Church is also called Patriarch Bartholomew dissenter. As drew the attention of the last Supper, "such actions of the Patriarch of Constantinople is not only his deep personal spiritual trauma, but the temptation for many believers"
in mid-December in Kiev on the initiative of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Patriarch Bartholomew held a "unification Council" with the participation of the majority of commissioners non-canonical Church structures.
The main outcome event was the election of Epiphanius Dumenko head of the new " Autocephalous Churches ".
ROC called insignificant "unification Council," noting that the possibility of recognizing the Epiphany, in practice an impossible task.
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