Sources say the deacon even allowed himself to raise his voice against Metropolitan Onuphrius.
Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church MP Onufriy planned to enshrine in the decision of the council words of “distrust” in the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill, but this provoked serious opposition from the deacon-deputy “OPZZH” Vadim Novinsky, writes Kateryna Shchotkina in her article for ZN.UA “Kharkiv Synod. UOC-MP (o) p>Not “heresy”, of course, but “distrust” – also a lot and could be the basis for the proclamation of autocephaly. However, in the general hall the balance of power was a little different. The proposal of “distrust” and the resulting autocephaly caused a scandal in which the main party belonged to the main sponsor of the UOC-MP, pro-Russian oligarch Vadim Novinsky, “the author notes.
According to sources, during the cathedral Novinsky even allowed himself to raise his voice against the head of his church. However, the audacity of the deacon, who for some reason sat in the front row on a par with the metropolitans of the church, was not punished, but on the contrary – the wording of “distrust” was softened to “disagreement”.
that and the wording orders. The role of keeping Russian oligarchs, obviously, the UOC-MP is still more expensive than the blood of their own parishioners. Because “disagreement” is not the word that murder, rape, looting and other lawlessness deserve. Without this one right word, the rest of the decisions of the Council appear in a rather strange, distorted, and sometimes even frankly bad light, “Shchotkina notes.
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It will be recalled that on May 27, the UOC-MP Council announced a decision on full independence, as well as disagreement with the position of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow on the war in Ukraine.
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