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Honorary Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) Filaret said that the Kyivo-Pecherska Lavra is a Ukrainian shrine and should belong to the Ukrainian church, not the Russian one.
Filaret spoke about this in an interview with TSN.
Answering the question of how the state should return Pochaevska Lavra and Kyivo-Pecherska Lavra from the hands of Moscow Patriarchate, and by what methods it can be done, Filaret noted that “we reject violence at once, only by legal methods”.
"Rada adopted a mechanism for how the community can go to the UOC. Using this law, they must gather the brethren,” Filaret stressed.
The honorary patriarch believes that the brethren of Lavra will meet because “circumstances will force”.
“If they have to re-register in the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), but they do not want to, then they will not have the rights of a legal entity. And without the right of a legal entity, they will lose a lot,” Filaret explained.
To clarify whether it is about Lavra, he said: “Including it. We have to. God will create conditions and they will have to. And I believe in it, and I am convinced that it will be. Because it is a Ukrainian shrine and should belong to the Ukrainian church, not the Russian one. ”
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