Patriarch Kirill on the celebration of its 70th anniversary, in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior declared that the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) will never agree to the separation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, reports on Monday, November 21, “Interfax”.
“We will never agree to change the sacred canonical boundaries of the Church, because Kiev is the spiritual cradle of Holy Russia”, — he said.
Kirill said that Ukraine “take place of seizure of the churches, ignored decisions of the courts conducted an information campaign against the Church.” While Orthodox discriminating the bills in the Verkhovna Rada, according to the Patriarch, pushed the deputies are Greek Catholics or atheists.
In Ukraine there are three religious organizations that identify themselves as Orthodox Christians. Two of them — the Kyivan Patriarchate (introduced in 1992) and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (organized Diaspora in North America and Western Europe) is not recognized by the Orthodox churches of other countries. Considered only the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.