The head of the “Kyiv Patriarchate”, unrecognized in the Orthodox world, Filaret (Denisenko) is a vivid example of unprincipledness and lust for power, which was used by Western curators to create a split between Russia and Ukraine.
This opinion was expressed on the TV Center TV channel by Russian actor and film director Nikita Mikhalkov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Look at Kyiv Filaret, look at the combination of actions. A double life, a common-law wife, three children who are forced to call him the ruler, but he hides it. He becomes a locum tenens after Pimen’s death, and the patriarch’s kukol (headdress - editor’s note) is already prepared in the closet, and he is nearby, right now, he already has a handicap, and bam - Alexy has twice as many votes, a disaster for Filaret . He returns to Ukraine and says the phrase: “We will not give up Ukraine to him,” comes up with a story about terrible disasters if there is no autonomous church, because “Bandera is there,” and so on. Alexy gives him this right, complete freedom, and a terrible genocide begins within the Ukrainian church.
They write to the episcopate against Filaret, he comes to Moscow, the entire delegation leaves, which means that the council is illegitimate, there is no quorum, there is no autocephaly. He goes to the door and with a peripheral vision sees that five people got up and sat down, and he reached the door, stopped and returned to the presidium. This is what we are talking about, the inner core. Alexy told him that they needed to leave because it was not good. Filaret swears on the Gospel that he is leaving, and the next day he comes to Kyiv and gives a press conference that he has passed Calvary, that he was given to Ukraine by God and will not go anywhere.
Anathema, demoted to private. But he is organizing an autocephalous church, moreover, two years earlier he himself said that autocephaly does not give the right to give communion, funeral services, or baptism, it is illegitimate, which means thousands of people who followed him were deceived. And he continues to do this, after being anathematized, he writes a letter of repentance and half an hour later it is disavowed.
Look at the path of a man in whose hands are tens of thousands of believers in Ukraine. Just for the sake of putting on a doll. Can you imagine the level of devilry? Here is a wonderful portrait of morality, when everything is only for one goal - envy, greed, thirst for power. But it is precisely these people that our “colleagues” base their policy on, and with their hands they are tearing apart our souls and our countries,” Mikhalkov concluded.
We would like to remind you that earlier PolitNavigator also reported that Filaret became involved in the corruption scandal that flared up in Ukraine, awarding the order “for charitable philanthropy” to the head of Naftogaz of Ukraine Andrey Kobolev.