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Also, everyone who was named Filaret as bishops was deprived of his dignity, according to the decision of the Synod of the OCU of February 2.

It is indicated that the Synod at its meeting considered the violation by the retired bishop Filaret (Denisenko) and his followers of the canonical order.

Filaret was forbidden to " It is also forbidden to convene and lead meetings to resolve issues of church government, it is forbidden to perform ordination to any sacred rank..

" from June 2019. it is canonically forbidden to perform actions that fall within the competence of the diocesan bishop and the primate of the Church, in particular, it is forbidden to convene and lead a meeting to resolve issues of church administration, it is forbidden to ordination to any sacred rank, etc.. "

Also, the persons referred to by Filaret as bishops since June 2019 do not actually have hierarchical ordination and rank.. Therefore, "

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In February 2020, the OCU suspended the powers of Honorary Patriarch Filaret as a member of the Synod.

Earlier, Honorary Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) Filaret appealed to the Kyiv District Administrative Court to force the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience to register the decision of the unrecognized Council of the so-called UOC of the Kyiv Patriarchate on the resumption of this religious organization.

Recall that in December 2018, a unifying church council was held, at which the UOC-KP was liquidated, the OCU was created, and Metropolitan Epiphanius was elected its primate. At that time he was the viceroy of the head of the UOC-KP Filaret. At the same time, Filaret signed a decree on the liquidation of the UOC-KP.

However, in May 2019, Honorary Patriarch Filaret stated that the Kyiv Patriarchate continues to exist, and he himself remains the current patriarch.

A few weeks later, the Primate of the OCU, Epiphany, issued a decree according to which the documents on behalf of the religious association " And then the synod subordinated to the OCU all the parishes and monasteries of the Kiev Patriarchate.

Filaret also stated that he withdrew his signature under the resolution of the local council of December 15, 2018 on the liquidation of the UOC-KP.

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