Commenting for the media (in particular, “suspended” and “News of the Ukrainian Air Force”) the SBU message that Onufry voluntarily received Russian citizenship in 2002, not notifying the state bodies of Ukraine about this, the head of the Synodal Information and Educational Department of the UOC MP Metropolitan Clement transmitted the words of Onufry that he allegedly “has only a passport of a citizen of Ukraine”.
“In addition to Ukrainian, he has no other passports, including the Russian Federation. He has already explained that he had never contacted the state bodies of other states to obtain another citizenship,” Clement said.
Later, on July 2, RBC-Ukraine was supposedly published by the photo of the Russian passport of Metropolitan Onufry.
“Data from the Russian passport system refutes the statements of the UOC -MP, which states that Onufria does not have a Russian passport. Passport” Active ” – it is written clearly and unambiguously,” the material says.
Context
The UOC -MP (part of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church), officially operates in Ukraine having The status of “self -governing church with the rights of wide autonomy.” At the cathedral May 27, 2022 UOC MP declared her independence (made changes to the charter) and expressed disagreement with the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Cyril, who supported the invasion of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, but did not condemn him.
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine believes that changing the charter is “an attempt to hide that The UOC remains in jurisdiction Moscow Patriarchate. “The UOC MP is accused In relations with Russian special services.
