The head of the OCU Epifaniy will appeal to the Ecumenical Patriarch and the heads of local churches with a request to bring Kirill (Gundyaev) to canonical responsibility and deprivation of his patriarchal throne.
This decision was made at the Council of Bishops of the OCU on 24 May.
“Ask the Primate to appeal to the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Primates of the Local Churches to bring russian Patriarch Kirill to canonical responsibility and deprive him of the Patriarchal throne for spreading heretical ethnophiletic doctrine, based on the ideology of “russian world”, “blessing” to cause destruction and numerous victims “, - was said in the text of the resolution of the council.
The russian patriarch is also accused of provoking schism (split) in the Orthodox Church due to the creation of “eparchies of the ROC” on the territory of the Patriarchate of Alexandria.
The council also decided to support the end of the commemoration in the diptych (official list of local Orthodox churches in historical order of honour, beginning with the liturgy of Constantinople, read during the liturgy) of the head of the Moscow Patriarchate for his approval of “russian aggression against Ukraine” and propaganda of ideology of “russian world”, which falls under the definition of the heresy of ethnophiletism.
We are reminding, that in April the Primate of OCU declared that “Kirill Gundyaev already made a choice in favour of affairs of the antichrist".
Meanwhile, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, more than 400 communities of the UOC-MP have joined the PCU.