Filaret announced repressions
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate declares repressions against participants in the council, which took place on June 20, and a number of “outright criminal actions” on the part of the unrecognized Orthodox Church of Ukraine, led by Metropolitan Epifaniy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This is stated in the statement of the UOC-KP.
According to the message, on the evening of June 20, “a student of the Theological Academy, Anton Pavlenko, was evicted from the dormitory, who the day before, for his support of the Patriarch of Kiev and all Rus'-Ukraine, Philaret, was expelled from the academy”: “Pavlenko was not even allowed into the building on the territory of the St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery Kyiv, which legally belongs to the Kyiv Patriarchate."
The UOC-KP also stated that supporters of the OCU “raided the premises of the St. Theodosius Monastery in Kyiv, which has the status of stauropegia and is directly subordinate to Philaret,” and also evicted Archimandrite Andrei (Marutsak), who took part in the “council” on June 20.
“On June 21, the premises of the Assumption Church on Pirogoshche in Kyiv, belonging to the UOC-KP, were seized,” Filaret said.
“We appeal to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov with a request to protect the rights and freedoms of believers of the UOC-KP, to give a legal assessment of the illegal actions of representatives of the OCU, to guarantee non-interference in the internal life of the UOC-KP, and to exclude church raiding,” the statement says.
Let us recall that the founder and head of the UOC-KP, Patriarch Filaret, held a local council on June 20, which decided to restore the existence of the Kyiv Patriarchate and abandoned the Istanbul tomos for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
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