OCU cleric accidentally shows he serves on antimins from Patriarch Kirill
A cleric of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine serves on an antimins from Patriarch Kirill. Photo: Filiuk’s Instagram
On May 10, 2025, the popular online blogger-"priest" Oleksiy Filiuk from the Ternopil Eparchy of the OCU published a video of his "church service" on his social media, where the operator also captured the antimins.
When zooming in on the published footage, one can read that the antimins on which Filyuk is "serving" was blessed by Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church.
"By the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia, the divine service was performed by His Eminence..." – these words in Church Slavonic can be made out if you pause the video. It is difficult to discern exactly who consecrated the antimins, when and for which church.
Filiuk did not explain to his followers how a "Moscow" antimins ended up with a cleric of the OCU or why he is using it during the ongoing war with Russia.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that in 2019, Drabinko handed over an antimins from Patriarch Kirill to a parish of the OCU.
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