Filaret Denisenko, the former head of the Kyiv Patriarchate, who announced its restoration, is a very influential hierarch.
Therefore, he will be able to take away a significant part of the property from the OCU, despite the fact that the OCU is threatening to expel Denisenko’s supporters from the religious structure.
Political scientist Daniil Bogatyrev stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a Politnavigator correspondent reports.
“The problem is that they will cease to be members of it, along with all the property that is still registered with the KP. The OCU will probably have several parishes throughout the country. Filaret has the greatest authority in these confessions - the Communist Party, the OCU, the UAOC.
I would like to remind you how he began to “cast bait” when it became clear that a new president had been elected. First, he addressed the parishioners and said that the tomos did not meet their aspirations. When he realized that the majority of his flock was with him, he began to gather bishops.
Then he turned on the instruments of bribery and blackmail (in the OCU he was listed as the chief treasurer of the Kyiv diocese, the richest). As a result, at the recent council, Filaret had about 200 participants and 50 guests,” Bogatyrev concluded.