The Orthodox Church responded to the statement Filaret about a possible return
In the back of Church split "with repentance, and not statements and ultimatums," said Fins news the Head of the press service of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church Vasily Anisimov.
So He explained the message of the schismatic Philaret Denisenko of readiness to return to the UOC and the possibility of combining it nekanonicheskogo structure, provided that the Russian Orthodox Church grants autocephaly and will give the opportunity to make a Patriarchy.
"If you stepped back and know that you're retiring, and want to go back to the Church of Christ, then you come back, but come back with repentance. We're not a political organization, " - said Anisimov.
He added that everything that has happened in Ukraine over the past thirty years is " the work of Philaret, that He created this rift."
The head of the press service also said that currently, the 91-year-old Denisenko "in General, all filtered out, it left just a few followers," but He ultimately makes its own rules.
Anisimov has noticed that afterward as on the field of the Ukrainian division " there are bigger predators than the Filaret ", then Denisenko subsided and remembered that " we have the same here and the laws are, and So forth."
in 1992 the Council of bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church stripped Metropolitan Filaret of dignity and of all degrees of the priesthood for "the perpetration of a split in the Church" and " the dictates and blackmail ", "perjury" and a few other things. In two years, "due to the lack of repentance of the monk Philaret" the Council of bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church warned him of a possible anathema. Still in 1997, Denisenko was excommunicated from the Church.
by the end of 2018 at the initiative of the Ukrainian authorities and the Patriarchate of Constantinople was created by the So-called Orthodox Church Ukrainianromanian by merging 2 various schismatic structures.
Having received from the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew the Tomos " autocephaly ", in fact she was almost completely dependent on him. Then ROC stopped Eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
in 2019, Ukrainian schismatics understood by the Greek and Alexandrian Orthodox Church. ROC told about the Eucharistic communion with the hierarchs of the Greek and Alexandrian churches, which recognize the PCU and will do with dissenters.
After a few months Filaret said about the topic in the " new Church." According to his statement, it was extremely rare communication with Epiphanius, who broke the consensus reached during the So-called " unification Council." While Denisenko believes that the head of the DNC e is independent of the Primate. He also said that his non-canonical structure, the location of which was created by the "new Church" of Ukraine, to the present moment exists. Epiphanius himself said that "the new Church" there is no split.
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