UAPTs PRIMATE: NONE OF THE PRO-RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS GAVE ME MONEY
UAPTs primate Makary called the accusation that he allegedly received material help from a patron of the Moscow patriarchate in exchange for renunciation of unification with UPTsKP bunk. The first hierarch said this in a commentary for RISU.
"I saw this statement, but I do not want to comment on it," he declared.
"Read my autobiography, my life journey. Read what I said about the Russian church, and these questions will fall away. Let them write. You know, where it is not lit, it will not burn. And a soap bubble will turn out to be a soap bubble. The majority of Ukrainians know my position with respect to Moscow," he added.
The UAPTs metropolitan assured that he has not met with any pro-Russian oligarch. And he did not take money from anyone for renunciation of unification. Vladyka Makary also categorically denied that the breakdown in negotiations occurred by their fault and, he said, the end of that story had already occurred earlier.
"We did not disrupt anything. We proposed that the unified church bear the name UAPTsKP," the primate noted.
Metropolitan Makary reported that a suggestion for unification was made to him by the UPTsMP also, but he did not have personal contacts with their clergymen recently.
"I did not have contact with clergymen of UPTsMP. Not with anybody. There was their statement that they would want to begin negotiations with us. I said to them: negotiations are possible only in a trilateral format: UAPTs, UPTsKP, and UPTsMP. You agree to this and we will begin negotiations!" the vladyka emphasized.
UAPTs primate Makary also noted that he had a meeting scheduled with UPTsMP Metropolitan Onufrey, but it did not occur. At that time Metropolitan Onufrey was on a pastoral visit outside the country, and he also was not in Kiev at the time. (tr. by PDS, posted 14 July 2015)
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