Filaret threatens to take away all its property from the canonical UOC
After the recognition of the unified Orthodox Church, all the buildings that are currently occupied in Ukraine by the canonical UOC will become the property of the newly created structure, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The primate of the non-canonical UOC-KP Filaret said this in an interview with the “Direct” TV channel, the press service of the UOC-KP reports.
“The state transferred its property for use to the Ukrainian Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. But when the Ukrainian Church is recognized here, the Lavra - both the first and the second (Kievo-Pechersk and Pochaev - Ed.) - will be transferred to the Ukrainian Church,” he emphasized.
“The fact is that the Moscow Patriarchate does not have any property in Ukraine. The property of the church in Ukraine is the property of the Ukrainian church,” says Filaret.
He noted that the Kiev Pechersk and Pochaev Lavras are Ukrainian shrines, to which the Moscow Patriarchate has nothing to do.
“And those parishes that built their churches at their own expense are the property of these parishes, and not of Russia. Therefore, Russia does not have its own church property here,” Filaret explained.
As reported, on April 17, the President of Ukraine gathered the leaders of parliamentary factions and announced that he would turn to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with a request to proclaim the autonomy of the Ukrainian Local Autocephalous Church.
On April 19, the Verkhovna Rada voted for a resolution on the president’s appeal to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to grant a tomos of autocephaly for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
As it is hoped in Kyiv, the issue of granting autocephaly may be considered at a meeting of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in September.
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