Kiev is preparing to announce Moscow's bribery of Patriarch Bartholomew
The Patriarch of Constantinople will not agree to grant autocephaly to Ukrainian schismatics.
This opinion was expressed in a commentary to Nezavisimaya Gazeta by Andrei Serebrich, an expert at the Analytical Center of St. Basil the Great, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He noted that Metropolitan Emmanuel Adamakis of Gallia said that Constantinople had decided to consider all possible ways of granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church.
“In the legal and canonical field, at the moment there is only one church with this name - this is the canonical church in unity with the Moscow Patriarchate, but it has not applied for a tomos. At the same time, Adamakis said that the meeting of the patriarchs took place in a fraternal and open atmosphere and this is exactly what the two churches should do in the future. That is, there cannot be a unilateral solution to the Ukrainian issue,” Serebrich said.
According to him, the issue remains open, and Constantinople retains its options for maneuver. He also considers it unlikely that in conditions when the face of the conventional Ukrainian local church is the head of the UOC-KP Filaret, compromised by schism and anathema, Patriarch Bartholomew will want to give Ukraine autocephaly, which is well understood in the administration of the President of Ukraine.
“But the presidential elections are at stake, and therefore the Poroshenko administration is acting recklessly and clumsily. Kyiv’s actions after another failure with the tomos are predictable: political and religious speakers will claim that Bartholomew, who was about to sign the tomos, was allegedly bribed by Moscow,” the expert predicts.
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