KDAIS Rector: Authorities must conduct independent expertise of UOC Statute
KDAiS Rector, Archbishop Silvester (Stoychev). Photo: news.church.ua
Rector of the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary Archbishop Sylvester stated that in the conditions of a possible ban on the UOC, there is a need for an independent examination of the UOC Statute with the involvement of European experts. The bishop wrote about this in an article published on the "DialogTut" resource.
The KDAiS Rector is convinced that the results of the previous expertise conducted by the State Service for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience (DESS) are erroneous.
"It is precisely this erroneous conclusion that can now become the basis for the legislative prohibition of our Church's communities, monasteries, and governing centres," the hierarch noted with regret.
"Therefore, there is a need to conduct a new impartial examination of the statutory documents of the UOC, involving European independent experts," he emphasized.
As reported, former head of DESS Olena Bohdan stated that the expertise of the UOC Statute will lead to an absurd situation, and its findings are unfounded and full of assumptions.
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