The head of the OCU, a former locum tenens of the head of the UOC-KP, Epiphany Dumenko, said that Filaret imitates the restoration of the Kyiv Patriarchate. This was discussed in an interview with Dumenko on “Pryamyi“.

“This, of course, is a difficult issue to a certain extent. We see that the Honorary Patriarch Filaret is de jure in the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and de facto imitates the restoration of the Kyiv Patriarchate. But we understand that one person, or several people, cannot claim to return everything that was accepted on December 15, 2018 within the walls of St. Sophia of Kyiv,” Epiphany said.

“And now, unfortunately, we see that Patriarch Filaret conducts such destructive activities and very often, in unison with the Russian Orthodox Church, spreads certain fakes, about autocephaly, that the Ukrainian Church allegedly does not have full autocephalous status, but this does not correspond to reality,” said the “metropolitan”.