KYIV. UkraineGate , 26 May , 2022 | Political News.
The Council of Bishops of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine has decided to appeal to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the heads of local churches with a request to bring to justice for spiritual crimes the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill Gundyaev .
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“The Council of Bishops has asked the Primate to appeal to the Ecumenical Patriarch and the heads of local churches to bring the Russian Patriarch Kirill to canonical responsibility and deprive him of his Patriarchal throne,” the PCU said in a statement on May 24.
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According to the PCU, the clergy are asking to remove Kirill from the throne “for spreading heretical ethnophiletic teachings based on the ideology of” Russian measure “, giving a” blessing “to Russian troops in the war in Ukraine, which continues to cause destruction and casualties, and provoking schism in the church , in particular through the establishment of “eparchies of the ROC” in the canonical territory of the Patriarchate of Alexandria.
The Council also supported the cessation of the diptych in the diptych of the head of the Moscow Patriarchate Kirill Gundyaev “in connection with his approval of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, as well as the promotion of the ideology of” Russian measure “, which falls under the definition of heresy ethnophiletism.”
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The PCU established its monastery in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra . Epiphanius will address the government regarding the premises.
Source: Ukrgate
