Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Epiphanius said that the OCU will check the priests of the Moscow Patriarchate who transfer to the Ukrainian Church, Volyn News reports. According to the head of the OCU, recently the communities have been joining the Orthodox Church of Ukraine together with the abbots.

“If the priest did not openly preach the ideology of the “Russian world”, did not stain himself with this ideology, then, of course, we accept him. One can be convinced of this very easily - according to the community. When the community decides to move and the priest supports the community, this indicates that he is a patriot, although he was part of the Moscow Patriarchate for some time, ”Epifaniy noted..

He is convinced that there are many priests in the UOC-MP who are patriots of Ukraine. However, the primate of the OCU does not exclude that those priests who now preach the ideology of the enemy will also want to go to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the future..

“Of course, those clergy and bishops who openly preached this ideology, who have Russian passports, but in the future want to go to the OCU, must repent, renounce Russian citizenship, renounce the ideology of the Russian world. Then there will be an appropriate decision on their admission to the OCU. I see and hear that Ukrainian society cares about this. Therefore, we will check, do everything to ensure that such people, having come to the Ukrainian church, do not destroy it from the inside,” Epifaniy added..

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