UPTsMP SYNOD EXPRESSES UPSET OVER
INTERFERENCE BY CONSTANTINOPLE PATRIARCHATE IN AFFAIRS OF
UKRAINIAN CHURCH
Synod creates commission for
dialogue with UAPTs
The Holy Synod of UPTsMP, which
assembled on 24 June for its regular session under the
chairmanship of Metropolitan Onufrey in the Kievan monastery of
St. Feofan, expressed its concern with the activity on the
"canonical territory" of the UPTsMP by two bishops of the
Constantinople patriarchate who nurture Ukrainians of the
diaspora, Bishop of Edmonton and the Western Diocese Ilarion and
Bishop of Pamphilia Daniil, a Portal-credo.ru correspondent
reports. The indicated bishops attended a session of the
commission on dialogue of the UPTsKP and UAPTs on 8 June and
they facilitated the agreement of these two churches for
unification. The UPTsMP synod instructed Metropolitan Onufrey to
send an appropriate message to Patriarch Bartholomew.
At the same time, the synod noted
positively the fact of the election of a new primate of UAPTs,
Metropolitan Makary, and created a commission for dialogue with
that church. The members of the commission include Metropolitan
of Kamenets-Podolsk and Gorodots Feodor (chairman); Metropolitan
of Belaia Tserkov and Boguslav Avgustin; Bishop of Lvov and
Galicia Filaret; Archpriest Nikolai Danilevich, the
vice-chairman of OVTsUPTsMP; and V.V. Buret, the prorector of
the Kiev Ecclesiastical Academy and Seminary.
In accordance with a report by
the ruling bishop of Ternopol diocese, Metropolitan Sergei,
Archimandrite Nafaniel was elected bishop of Shumsk, a vicar
bishop of the Ternopol diocese of UPTsMP.
Metropolitan of Poltava and
Mirgorod Filipp, Archbishop of Zaporozhe and Melitopol Luka, and
bishop of Severodonetsk and Starobelsk Nikodim were summoned as
temporary members for attending regular sessions of the synod.
(tr. by PDS, posted 28 June 2015)
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