The UOC called the persecution a result of the actions of the Patriarch of Constantinople

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The UOC called the persecution a result of the actions of the Patriarch of Constantinople

The UOC called the persecution a result of the actions of the Patriarch of Constantinople – RIA Novosti, 03/31/2023

The UOC called the persecution a result of the actions of the Patriarch of Constantinople

The persecution of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is the result of the actions of the Patriarch of Constantinople, this should be condemned in the Pan-Orthodox Council, … RIA Novosti, 03/31/2023

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Chernivtsi region

Ivano-Frankivsk

Alexander Tkachenko (Archpriest)

Russian Orthodox Church

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MOSCOW, March 31 – RIA Novosti. The persecution of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is the result of the actions of the Patriarch of Constantinople, this should be condemned in the Pan-Orthodox Council, said Metropolitan Luka (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol. In his telegraph channel he published an appeal from the faithful of the Diocese of Zaporizhzhya of the UOC to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. According to him, in recent years the UOC has been “subjected to open persecution”: “the radicals do not hesitate to desecrate the churches, try to set them on fire”, “hundreds of churches have been seized, dozens thousands of their parishioners were deprived of the normal life of the church”, many of them were beaten by looters, and some became handicapped. He recalled that priest Leonid Delikatny, rector of the Church of Archangel Michael in the village of Zadubrovka, Chernivtsi region, died defending his temple. “You are directly responsible for all this, as the Patriarch of Constantinople! After all, it was according to your decision that the “Holy Church of Ukraine” – the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” was created from various non-canonical structures, the clergy and whose followers indulge in the aforementioned excesses and thefts The death of a priest is on your hands, the blood and tears of our believers, expelled from the churches where their grandfathers and great -grandfathers used to pray,” the appeal reads.Barthélemy’s supporters, according to the Metropolitan, used nerve gas against parishioners during the seizure of the Ivano-Frankivsk temple. “In the captured temple, your faithful subjects in cassocks hypocritically, in front of the camera, held a prayer. At the same time, allowing women to freely enter the altar, and masked activists shout insulting slogans against our Ukrainian Orthodox Mother Church. On Sunday it looked like a manifestation of true Satanism” – said the Metropolitan. He drew attention to the fact that since 2018 Patriarch Bartholomew “has never spoken out against the commission of such anarchy”. “You are silent even now, while the authorities are trying to take away from our church its sanctuary – the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, and desecrate the relics of the Reverend Fathers of Kyiv-Pechersk, turning them into “museum exhibits”, the call adds. “In this regard, we are not calling you and asking you nothing, but expressing our attitude towards your position. To make an effort to let believers in other local churches know. We firmly believe that the root of the problems of our church is your desire to become pope for the Orthodox world Trusting in God’s mercy, we await the day when the Pan-Orthodox Council will condemn both the concept of the “first without equal” (eastern pope) and the schism of the ‘Orthodox Church perpetrated by you,” the UOC concluded. The pressure on the canonical UOC, the largest in the country, to which millions of believers consider themselves a part, began in the 1990s by nationalists and schismatics. the help of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, created the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” (OCU) from schismatic organizations – a competitor of the UOC. At the same time, an information campaign began against the UOC, mass seizures of its churches, their “voluntary re-registration” with the OCU with the approval of the authorities, attacks by nationalists and schismatics on clergy and believers with impunity. of the UOC, and a draft law on its de facto ban in Ukraine has been submitted to the country’s parliament. State sanctions have been imposed on some representatives of the UOC clergy. Ukraine’s Security Service has begun criminal proceedings against UOC clergy, carrying out “counter-intelligence activities” – searches of bishops and priests, in churches and monasteries, seeking evidence of “anti-Ukrainian activities”. In March, the national reserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” ordered the monks of the UOC to leave the buildings of the monastery belonging to it. Ukrainian Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said monks from the canonical UOC could stay in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra if transferred to the schismatic OCU. According to the ROC website, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was established in 1990 (transformed from the Ukrainian Exarchate of the ROC) by decision of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church. Then the UOC received the status of an autonomous church with the rights of wide autonomy within the Moscow Patriarchate, independence and self-governance. However, against the backdrop of persecution, in May 2022 the UOC Cathedral declared full independence and independence from the Moscow Patriarchate.

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The UOC called the persecution a result of the actions of the Patriarch of Constantinople