The assembled bishops of the MP at the late Archpastoral Council. They, not Black Bart and the traitor Yushchenko, have authority in the Ukraine.
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The Ukrainian Orthodox Church/MP (UOC/MP) accused the Ukrainian political leadership of attempting to foment a schism in Orthodoxy in the Ukraine with the active cooperation of the EP. Archimandrite Kirill Govorun, the head of the Department of External Church Relations of the UOC/MP, said that negotiations between the EP and the Ukrainian government were going on for the last several days with the active participation of President Viktor Yushchenko, the newspaper Sevodnya (Today) reported on Tuesday. Fr Kirill asserts that the reason for the negotiations is that the Ukrainian government wants Bartholomew to declare union between the EP and two schismatic Ukrainian “Orthodox” bodies, the so-called “Patriarchate of Kiev” and the so-called “Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church”, and make their leaders Metropolitans of the EP. Yushchenko wants Bartholomew to announce this on 26 July, when the EP visits the Ukraine for the celebration of the 1,020th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia. If these negotiations are successful, the newspaper noted that both of these structures would gain “canonicity”, since they are recognised by no other Local Church at present. Fr Kirill believes that this course of events would lead only to emphatic opposition in church circles and from non-Orange Ukrainian political parties, to seizures of churches by schismatics, and, the main thing, schism in world Orthodoxy. According to the information received by Fr Kirill, both Yushchenko and Philaret Denisenko, the leader of the so-called “Patriarchate of Kiev” {a deposed cleric of the MP rightly under an anathema: editor}, want the EP to grant autocephaly to that schismatic body in the very near future. However, Fr Kirill is certain that Bartholomew has other plans. “Today, its flock numbers three million people (sic), scattered throughout the world. If it took over the Ukraine, such an action would considerably increase its flock. Yushchenko believes that [Bartholomew] will hardly refuse such an offer”, he stated.
22 July 2008
Interfax-Religion
http://www.interfax-religion.ru/cis.php?act=dujour&div=12
Editor’s Note:
Things are worse than I thought yesterday. Yushchenko is a traitor to Orthodoxy and a blasphemer who dares to divide the Body of Christ. Black Bart is worse. There are no words to describe such vileness. This means war, and such a war may not be merely rhetorical or confined to the ecclesiastical sphere. God help us and preserve us from the evil being unleashed by Yushchenko and Bartholomew. May the Lord have mercy on their souls for such perfidiousness and wickedness.
BMD
