“Priest” of the OCU Viktor Martynenko said that “Metropolitan” Mikhail Zinkevich, speaking in his claims to the primacy in this structure, said that he could still become the head of the OCU, “and Epiphanius could die”. Martynenko spoke this out in an interview to “Religious Pravda”.
Martynenko said that in his opinion, “it is sheer boorishness to give interviews and say: “I can still be the primate.” And when they ask: “But what about Epiphanius?”, “And Epiphanius could die.”
“I told him, this offended him very much, I said: “I always knew that the Lord gives equally to everyone, we had Vladyka Pavel (rector of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan of the UOC Pavel (Lebed)) in the MP (UOC), and you were like Vladyka Paul of the Kiev Patriarchate.” But we need to change, we are in the new church”.