Greek media criticize OCU for joint services with UGCC
"Metropolitans" Oleksandr Drabinko, Ivan Yaremenko, and Uniate military chaplains. Photo: UGCC
Greek Orthodox media KATANIXI criticized the recent joint "consecration" by representatives of the OCU and Greek Catholics of a site for construction at the Omega Special Training Center in Kyiv.
The publication noted that this is not the first instance of joint services, which, in their belief, indicates that a plan is being implemented in Ukraine to create a new union between Orthodox and Catholics.
"It is part of the general framework of a well-planned and gradually implemented uniatisation of the Orthodox Church, under the watchful eye of the Patriarchate of Constantinople," the article states.
The authors, in particular, remind that the newly elected head of the OCU, Epifaniy Dumenko, invited Uniates to his ordination in 2018.
At the same time, the publication drew attention to the fact that this structure, being subordinate to the Ecumenical Patriarch, "threatens, expels, and persecutes the Orthodox of Ukraine who continue to remain faithful to the canonical Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and the Ukrainian Church."
As reported by the UOJ, the OCU together with the Uniates consecrated a site for the construction of a military church.
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