UOC KP believers shame Zoria: Do not forget about the Judgment of God

The community of one of the Kiev Patriarchate churches. Photo: Facebook

In connection with the statements of the spokesperson for the new religious organization Eustratiy Zoria that the disease changed the head of the UOC KP Filaret Denisenko beyond recognition, the parishioners of the Kiev Patriarchate called on the OCU “hierarch” to repent.

“Kievans, parishioners of St. Vladimir's Patriarchal Cathedral and other Kiev churches, address you with great pain in the heart and indescribable indignation caused by your false articles on the Internet about the state of health of our Most Holy Patriarch of Kiev and all Rus-Ukraine Filaret,” say believers of the UOC KP on the Facebook page of their religious organization. “In your articles, you shamelessly make diagnoses to our Primate that are not true. And you are doing this for one purpose – to prepare the community for the idea that the Patriarch, having such a respectable age, is no longer able to govern the Church and deserves to retire.”

People assured that Filaret is in good health and reproached with a lie “in the form of the Tomos”, which, in their opinion, pulled the Kiev Patriarchate “into the life-long yoke”.

"And he is consistently struggling with the lies that you proclaimed to the people of Ukraine in the form of the Tomos, dragging our independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate into the life-long yoke called "The Orthodox Church of Ukraine," they added.

The believers are outraged with Zoria’s ingratitude and his actions and, therefore, reminded him that, besides the judgment of man, there is also God's Judgment.

“The Patriarch raised and educated a whole galaxy of church leaders to which you belong as well. But, unfortunately, instead of filial gratitude, you put yourself above the Patriarch, and you also presented yourself as a doctor who, contrary to the Hippocratic oath, can make and publish disgraceful and false diagnoses about his spiritual father,” they concluded. “We dare to insist that your actions are very shameful, which characterize your new creation – the OCU. We urge you to repent. Do not forget that besides human there is also God's Judgment.”

Earlier, the UOC KP already called on Zoria to apologize to Filaret for slander. In case he does not publishes an official denial, he was threatened with legal action.

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