The Council of Bishops of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine appealed to the Ecumenical Patriarch and the primates of local churches with a request to condemn the spiritual crimes of the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill Gundyaev.

According to Metropolitan Epiphanius of the OCU, the synod asks to deprive Cyril of the throne due to "

“Patriarch Kirill is one of the creators of the ideology of the “Russian world”, its propagandist and popularizer. This ideology itself falls under the condemnation of the Council of Constantinople in 1872.. ethnophyletism as heresy. Accordingly, Kirill Gundyaev, as its co-creator and propagandist, should be condemned if he does not renounce this heresy and does not reveal the fruits of repentance, ”the synod’s appeal says..

Also, the clergy of the OCU decided to no longer commemorate the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill according to the Diptych of the names of the primates of other Orthodox churches.

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Recall that the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches have collected more than four hundred signatures under an appeal to the Primates of the Eastern Churches. on the trial of Patriarch Kirill, who supported the war against Ukraine.

The head of the UOC-MP Onufry from the first day condemned the war of Russia against Ukraine, but did not dare to declare a break with the Russian Orthodox Church, which blesses the war and the destruction of the Ukrainian people as such.