Dumenko congratulates Filaret on 97th birthday and thanks him for OCU creation
Dumenko and Filaret. Photo: OCU
On January 23, 2026, the head of the OCU Serhiy Dumenko congratulated Filaret Denisenko on his 97th birthday. According to his words, “As seven years ago, during the celebration of your 90th anniversary, today we once again thank you for your contribution to the achievement of the unity of Ukrainian Orthodoxy at the Council in St. Sophia and for receiving the Tomos of Autocephaly from the Ecumenical Patriarchate.”
Dumenko emphasized that this "strengthened Ukraine's sovereignty and destroyed the wall of artificial external isolation of our Local Church from communion with world Orthodoxy."
Earlier, the UOJ wrote that Dumenko called on Filaret to show "humility before God's will".
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