Philaret Denisenko

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the decision made by the Orthodox Holy Synod to remove Ukraine’s Filaret from the administration of the Province of Kiev.
The Orthodox Holy Synod convened under the presidency of the honorable “Patriarch” on June 20th, and removed the administration of the Metropolis of Kiev and handed it to Metropolitan Epiphanius.

A recent newspiece on OrthoChristian.com, the representative news site of the Moscow Patriarchate, reported that “Patriarch” Philaret Denisenko, the decades-long leader of the “Kyiv Patriarchate” of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, refused to sign a document pledging fealty to the statutes of the newly formed “Church” structure presently known as the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU).