Bulgarian Church denies Ukrainian media reports about its support of OCU
Metropolitan Cyprian of Stara Zagora
The Bulgarian hierarch categorically denied the information disseminated on Ukrainian Internet sites that the BOC supported the autocephaly of the OCU. This is stated in his statement published on the official website of the Stara Zagora Metropolitanate.
The commission is not yet ready to make decisions on the situation in Ukraine, as the study of the documents continues, Metropolitan Cyprian emphasized.
“In connection with the dissemination of information on Ukrainian Internet sites that the BOC supported the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine on January 26, as the chairman of the commission related to the Ukrainian issue, I categorically declare that the BOC Synod did not deal with the issue of Ukraine, and there is no decision of the supreme body of the BOC about the canonical incident caused," the bishop emphasized.
Vladyka also called on all Orthodox Christians and the media to use only verified information that comes from the Holy Synod of the BOC in order to avoid misinformation on the church problem in Ukraine.
As the UOJ reported earlier, it was planned that the Bulgarian Orthodox Church would discuss the Ukrainian issue and the proposal of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church to convene a Pan-Orthodox Council at an extraordinary meeting of the Synod on November 5, 2018.
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