At today's meeting, the Ecumenical Patriarchate declared the “annexation” of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Metropolitanate in 1686 to be illegal.. It is reported by the TV channel "112" with reference to the Greek edition of the orthodoxia. info. This information is confirmed by the press secretary of the UOC-KP Evstrati Zorya. "We are waiting for an official announcement from the Holy Synod," he wrote on his Facebook page.. In addition, the Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate removed the anathema from the Patriarch of the UOC-KP Filaret and decided to renew the canonical status of the Primate of the UAOC Macarius (Maletich). Thus, the Synod granted to the self-proclaimed "Kyiv Patriarchate" and "Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church" the status of canonical churches.

Recall, after the collapse of the USSR and the declaration of independence in Ukraine in 1991. Filaret (Denisenko) became an active supporter of the restoration of Ukrainian church independence. In 1992, he took part in the restoration of autocephaly - the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate. At the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church on June 11, 1992. ROC deprived Filaret of all degrees of priesthood. In 1997, he was declared anathema.

Macarius left the Russian Orthodox Church and joined the UAOC in 1993. At the moment, Ukraine is waiting for receiving Thomas, which gives the right to create the United Ukrainian Autocephalous Local Church. Earlier, the Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church Hilarion said that if Nezalezhnaya still receives Tomos, the Russian Orthodox Church can break off all relations with Constantinople.. Recently it became known that after the proclamation of autocephaly, the Kyiv Patriarchate intends to appropriate itself 24 churches of the UOC-MP on October 14, when the Orthodox celebrate the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God and Virgin Mary and the Ukrainian nationalists the day the UPA was created (banned in the Russian Federation).