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Media reports names of three UOC (MP) bishops who eventually met with Poroshenko

14.11.2018, 10:11
According to Relihiyna Pravda, three bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) arrived in the evening of November 13 to meet with Petro Poroshenko: Metropolitan Oleksandr (Drabynko) of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky and Vyshneve, Metropolitan Simeon of Vinnytsia and Bary, and Archbishop Filaret of Nova Kakhovka and Henichesk.

According to Relihiyna Pravda, three bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) arrived in the evening of November 13 to meet with Petro Poroshenko: Metropolitan Oleksandr (Drabynko) of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky and Vyshneve, Metropolitan Simeon of Vinnytsia and Bary, and Archbishop Filaret of Nova Kakhovka and Henichesk.

According to LB.ua, Metropolitan Simeon of Vinnytsia and Bary is the only one out of 83 participants of the Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), who did not sign the resolution of the Synod.

Metropolitan Simeon did not put his signature under this resolution, despite the pressure that other hierarchs had exerted on him. Metropolitan himself explained his decision by the fact that he does not agree with the rupture of the Eucharistic communion with Constantinople.

As reported, the emergency Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate called invalid and non-canonical the decisions of the Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate recognizing the Head of the UOC-Kyiv Patriarchate Filaret and the Head of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Makariy as canonical hierarchs, and also refused to join the One Local Church, as they believe that Ukraine does not need autocephaly.

The meeting of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko with the hierarchs of the UOC (MP) in the Ukrainian House was disrupted as the Council of Bishops was held in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The clergymen explained their demarche by their reluctance to meet with the Head of State outside the church territory.