The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine called on the bishops, clergy and laity of the communities of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate to "

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Our Holy Synod calls on the bishops, clergy, monasteries and religious communities under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate of Ukraine to follow the Tomos of autocephaly of the OCU and enter into canonical unity with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

— Metropolitan Epifaniy (@Epifaniy) March 22, 2022.

Recall that a trusted ally of Vladimir Putin, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, refused to condemn the Kremlin’s decision to invade Ukraine and called Russia’s opponents in Ukraine an “evil force”.

In his Sunday sermon before Lent, he said that one of the reasons for the war in Ukraine was gay parades organized in the West..

Subsequently, a number of Christian churches distanced themselves from Russian Orthodoxy and Patriarch Kirill, and some parthias of the UOC-MP in Ukraine began to come under the jurisdiction of the OCU.

As for the head of the UOC-MP, Metropolitan Onufry, on the first day of the war, he called on the president of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin, to immediately stop the "