Head of the UOC-Kyiv Patriarchate His Holiness Patriarch Filaret is ready to head the Ukrainian Local Orthodox Church, if the Bishops Council entrusts it, Filaret said during an interview on Ukrainian Radio..
He also told by what criteria the head of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church should be elected..
"So far, the Ecumenical Patriarch wants the Ukrainian church to be headed by an archbishop - a metropolitan, not a patriarch. But our church has already decided that, for external use, the head of the UOC will have an expanded title. That is, there will be an extended title, and an abbreviated. Extended is the archbishop and metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia of Ukraine. And the narrow will be for our internal use - the Patriarch of Kiev and All Russia of Ukraine ", - said the Patriarch.