ROC calls canonically void the unification council in Kyiv

The Russian Orthodox Church considers canonically void the unification council which elected the head of a new Ukrainian Church, independent of Moscow. This was stated by the deputy chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Nikolai Balashov, according to Interfax.

“The non-canonical assembly of persons who partially were, but mostly, were not lawfully ordained as bishops under the general leadership of a layman and Head of State, as well as a visiting person who does not understand the local language, elected a non-canonical "hierarch” by the similarly non-canonical Primate, does not mean anything,” said Balashov.