Filaret admitted that it was not possible to split the canonical church
Only two bishops from the canonical UOC defected to the side of the so-called “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” created in December last year.
The “patriarch” of the “Kyiv Patriarchate”, unrecognized in the Orthodox world, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Filaret, there was no unification of Ukrainian churches as such.
“On December 15, 18, a unification council took place, which united the autocephalous church with the Kyiv patriarchate. And they were joined by two bishops of the Moscow Patriarchate. Two out of eighty. And then, one with one paraffia, and the second - 20 or 30 paraffias out of three hundred. Therefore, the council took place as a unifying council, but since it did not satisfy the Kiev Patriarchate, we separated from this united church,” Filaret said.
The false patriarch also boasted that 15 heads of dioceses of the Kyiv Patriarchate refused to join him in the newly created OCU.
“Now I can say how many bishops there are – we have six bishops, with me. I can’t say how many priests there are, and I can’t say how many parishes there are. I can say approximately how many dioceses are included in the Kiev Patriarchate today - it’s about 15 dioceses,” said the head of the schismatics.
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