Actions of Constantinople, who shot in the middle of October an anathema from two schismatics from non-canonical churches of Ukraine, criticized the Bishops' Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church. This is stated in the statement of the SPT, distributed on Monday, November 12. "The Council notes with regret that the Patriarchate of Constantinople made a canonically unreasonable decision to rehabilitate the leaders of the two splitting groups in Ukraine, Philaret Denisenko and Macarius Maletich," the document states. It is noted that at one time Filaret was deprived of his dignity, after which he was subjected to anathema, and Macarius was deprived of the apostolic succession as the "spiritual offspring of the sect of so-called self-saints". "The Council does not recognize these figures and their followers as Orthodox hierarchs and clergy and, therefore, does not accept liturgical and canonical communication with them and their supporters," the statement stresses.. The Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church proposed to Constantinople and other local churches to consider "the issue of autocephaly and the Orthodox diaspora as soon as possible" at the Pan-Orthodox Council, in order "to confirm and strengthen the unity and unity of the Orthodox Church and in the future to avoid the temptation" through which it now passes. Commenting on this statement, Rostislav Ischenko, President of the Center for System Analysis and Forecasting, noted that it was not a church, but the political decision of Constantinople did not like the rest of the Orthodox churches, who saw in it a threat to all denominations.. "It is absolutely clear that if the schism that has already begun is aggravated, it will pass absolutely in all Orthodox denominations.. All the decisions of the churches, including those of the Serbian, which now one after another declare that the decisions of Constantinople are uncanonical, are aimed at demonstrating their opposition, "the RT expert said. Recall that after the Istanbul Church announced the beginning of the provision of autocephaly in Ukraine, which the ROC called split, the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on October 15 broke off communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople throughout the canonical territory of the ROC, including Ukraine and Belarus.