The Russian Orthodox Church will not agree to autocephaly of the UOC - Patriarch Kirill
The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), Patriarch Kirill, said that he would never agree to the independence of the Ukrainian Church from the Moscow Patriarchate.
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He spoke about this at a gala event in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
Kirill said that the Russian Orthodox Church “will never leave its brothers in Ukraine in trouble and will not abandon them.”
“We will never agree to change the sacred canonical boundaries of our Church, because Kyiv is the spiritual cradle of Holy Rus', like Mtskheta for Georgia or Kosovo for Serbia,” says the patriarch.
Currently, the only one in Ukraine canonically recognized in the Orthodox world is still considered to be the Ukrainian Orthodox Church with Metropolitan Onuphry at its head.
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