Is this the end of the Kyiv Patriarchate?
Police outside Filaret’s residence on the day of his death. Photo: UOJ
The OCU has announced that it will conduct Filaret’s funeral service, even though Denysenko himself wrote something entirely different in his will. Yet there has been no protest from the Kyiv Patriarchate – not even a comment.
Why Dumenko is pushing the matter is clear enough: they are demonstrating that no UOC-KP exists anymore, and that Filaret belongs to the OCU, whatever he himself may previously have said.
But beyond the reputational dimension, there are also property and financial considerations: the residence in central Kyiv on Chykalenko Street (formerly Pushkinska), St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral, and the cash assets as well. According to sources, Dumenko is now taking control of all of it.
Several police and National Guard vehicles are stationed outside the residence. But there are no clashes, and the street remains quiet.
It looks like the UOC-KP is finished.
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