Priests of the UOC MP expressed their disagreement with the behavior of their colleagues who refused to sing the child in Zaporozhye, which caused a scandal. This they said "Ukrinform". "I'm ashamed for what happened, I would never have thought to ask in which Church the child was baptized. I remember well what the late Blessed Vladimir Sabodan said: people from the UOC-KP and the UAOC should not be crossed. And once the baptism is valid, it is possible and funeral service, - said one capital dean. Another Mitred Protopriest said that he intended everything that had happened to discuss with his arrival: "Everything that happened, I consider meanness towards the parents of the child and violation of the apostolic rules. On the Russian church sites there is a rule of the father of the church of Basil the Great. He argues that one should recognize the baptism of people who think differently about certain church subjects, because they belong to the church. Those who forbid burial of the deceased from unrecognized churches, encroach on the authority of the Church Fathers ". "I seriously studied the topic, because for a long time I wanted to answer myself to this question, relying on documents. On the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church found this answer. We are invited to read and take for consideration the book of the Russian priest Alexander Usatov, where it is clearly written on the 29th page, I quote: "Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformats, Old Believers and modern schismatics (for example, Ukrainian Filaretians) are accepted according to the second order - through Chrismation. "Their baptism is recognized, and therefore, based on this, we have no right not to sing, because the person was baptized," - said another priest. "The case is outrageous. And the problem is not in the absence of canons for the burial service, but in the absence of charity. I was a funeral service to the faithful of the Armenian church and the ATO-shnika, who took over his hand, because I believe that he had a broken psyche, and it happened on the front when he defended Ukraine, "said a priest from Volhynia. "I was a funeral to the faithful of the KP. And I do not see any obstacles for this, except for the "blessings" of individual bishops, "said the priest from Sumy.

In this context, the theologian Cyril Govorun explained that in accordance with certain decisions of the ROC, which are also adopted in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, baptisms committed in the Kyiv Patriarchate are considered invalid. However, he considers this norm "medieval". As previously reported, in the evening of December 31 in Zaporozhye jumped from the apartment window suicide killed a child - a two-year-old boy. When the family appealed to the priest of the UOC-MP with a request for a funeral ceremony for the baby, he refused, referring to the fact that he was baptized in the church of the Kyiv Patriarchate.