The former primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate Filaret said that he withdrew his signature on the resolution of the Local Council of December 15, 2018 regarding the liquidation of the UOC-KP.

However, the speaker of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Archbishop Eustratius Zorya, noted that such actions of Filaret will not affect the liquidation of the Kiev Patriarchate.

In turn, Eustratius Zorya, in a comment to Ukrinform, indicated that the withdrawal of the signature would not affect the decision of the unifying church council on the liquidation of the Kiev Patriarchate.

In December, the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphanius, announced the legal termination of the existence of the UOC of the Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

December 15, 2018 at the Unification Cathedral in Sofia, Kiev, the head of the local Ukrainian church was elected.

They became the 39-year-old Metropolitan Epiphanius of Pereyaslavl and Belotserkovsky.

January 6, Ukraine received a tomos about autocephaly of the PCU, signed by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the eve. The ceremony of transferring the staff and tomos to Metropolitan Epiphanius officially completed the procedure for Ukraine to obtain church independence. January 9, all members of the Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate signed a document, which technically completed its execution. Reports about it " Ukraine"