Tkachenko: I only heard old songs from Onuphry on calls to serve with OCU
Tkachenko asking the Primate of the UOC why he does not agree to serve with Dumenko. Photo: BBC
Oleksandr Tkachenko said in an interview with the BBC that during the meeting with Metropolitan Onuphry he urged him to start concelebrating with the OCU but received a refusal.
"When I spoke to him about co-service and dialogue with the OCU, the same old song about the OCU being a non-canonical church was heard. This is where any dialogue ends," complained Tkachenko.
According to him, he did not receive "specific answers" from His Beatitude Onuphry to the questions about "spiritual connection, membership in the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church and everything else."
The person remained firm in his beliefs: 'We are an independent Church'," Tkachenko recounted the response of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
As reported, the Commission of the Ministry of Culture broke down the doors to the Lavra-based residence of the Primate of the UOC.
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