Poroshenko went into church schism
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on the Patriarch of Constantinople to intervene in the internal affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church.
We are talking about the so-called. “overcoming the split in Ukraine.” As is known, after the collapse of the USSR, part of the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine went into schism, creating their own “Kiev Patriarchate”, not recognized in the Orthodox world. Most of the parishes remained part of the Ukrainian Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. The head of the UOC-KP Filaret was anathematized by the Russian Church.
Now Poroshenko is trying to get the Patriarch of Constantinople to recognize the schismatics - to recognize their right to church separatism, i.e. interfere in internal affairs on the canonical territory of the Moscow Patriarchate.
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“We received the light of the Holy Fire from Constantinople, from where the first bishops and priests came to us. From Constantinople, the faith of Christ came to Kyiv, on the banks of the Dnieper, and it was from here that it spread to other East Slavic lands and neighboring peoples. The Church of Constantinople for us was, is and will be the Mother Church, to which we, her children, turned and will turn for help, including in overcoming the division that today hurts Orthodox Ukrainians,” Poroshenko announced today at a prayer service for schismatics from UOC KP.
The day before, believers of the Moscow Patriarchate held a procession for peace in Kyiv, but Poroshenko demonstratively joined the prayer service of the “Kyiv Patriarchate,” which supports the military operation to suppress the uprising in Donbass.
It should also be noted that earlier, before being elected president, Poroshenko was a parishioner of the Moscow Patriarchate.
“The Orthodox Church in Ukraine requires urgent attention from the Ecumenical Throne of Constantinople. He is the only one who is able to help the Orthodox of Ukraine unite and regulate the canonical status of the Ukrainian Church in the structure of world Orthodoxy.
Sociological surveys show that an increasing number of Orthodox citizens of Ukraine want to have, as is customary throughout the Orthodox world and most Orthodox countries, a single local autocephalous church... This is a historical trend that cannot bypass Ukraine,” Poroshenko continued.
“And this is one of the reasons why the Verkhovna Rada reasonably appealed to the Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, to grant the Tomos of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine... With great hope, Kiev received the news that the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople is creating a special commission to consider the application of the Ukrainian parliament,” the head of state emphasized.
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