The State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience announced the existence of a church-canonical connection between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) and the Russian Orthodox Church. This is stated in the conclusion of the expert group, which for two months analyzed the new version of the Charter on the management of the UOC-MP dated May 27, 2022. , on the basis of which the church claimed independence from the Russian Orthodox Church.

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In particular, it is noted that the UOC-MP has, in relation to the ROC, a church-canonical connection of the part with the whole, and the relations of the UOC with the ROC are not relations of one independent (autocephalous) church with another independent autocephalous church..

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Thus, the UOC-MP continues to be in relation to the ROC in a relationship of subordination, does not act as an independent church and does not proclaim its own independence.. Also, there are no documents or actions indicating the transformation of the UOC into an independent religious organization in relation to the ROC,.

An expert religious assessment of the status of the UOC-MP was carried out on the basis of the decision of the National Security and Defense Council "

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