On the treatment of the UOC

(UOC) - On 5 January 2023, Archbishop Theodosios of Sebastia, an hierarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, stated during a meeting with the delegation of the Polish Orthodox Church that Christians of the entire world ought to condemn the persecutions which the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was being subjected to. orthodoxostypos.gr informs about it, the Information and Education Department of the UOC reports.

‘Where is the whole Orthodox world now to condemn the persecutions which the UOC is being subjected to? We still have not heard definite attitudes in spite of the calls and messages sent by her hierarchs’, pointed out Archbishop Theodosios.

The hierarch underlined that the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem did not recognise the ‘Orthodox Church of Ukraine’.

‘We do not recognise the uncanonical and illegitimate organisation created in Ukraine under political pressure, which we all know about, and we recognise only the canonical UOC headed by Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv’, he emphasised.

According to him, if the ‘church dilemma’ which has emerged in Ukraine is not resolved, it will affect the whole Orthodox world, the situation in which will become ‘ever worse and worse’.

The hierarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem added that the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem prayed God for the end of the war in Ukraine.

‘We pray for the resolution of the present crisis, so as to restore accord, unity and to heal the wound from which everyone is suffering’, summarised Archbishop Theodosios.