The new Metropolitan of Kyiv is asked to urgently abandon the anti-Russian speakers of the UOC MP
Kyiv, August 18 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – The newly elected Metropolitan of Kiev Onuphry must, as soon as possible, carry out personnel changes in the press service of the UOC MP, whose representatives sympathize with the idea of autocephaly, allowing themselves to voice anti-Russian statements.
This is stated in a statement by the Association of Orthodox Experts, the text of which is available to Navigator.
The reason for the statement was today’s statement by the speaker of the UOC-MP, Archpriest Georgy Kovalenko, that Crimea should be returned to Ukraine, and, according to him, the Moscow Patriarchate adheres to the same position.
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“The Moscow Patriarchate treats Kovalenko with righteous anger and considers him an enemy of the Russian Church and Holy Rus',” the APE states.
The authors of the document believe that “with the help of a mole in the Moscow Patriarchate, who is lobbying Kovalenko, they are trying to pit Patriarch Kirill against Vladimir Putin.”
“Crimea is forever in Russia. Novorossiya will never return to Ukraine! We ask Metropolitan Onuphry to remove Kovalenko from all posts in the UOC-MP,” the association emphasizes.
“Every day Kovalenko is in office in the UOC-MP increases the will of the Orthodox Russian people of Crimea and Novorossiya to achieve the transition to direct subordination to the Moscow Patriarch! The structure of the UOC seems unnecessary and hostile to them!” – also noted in the document.
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