Almost half of the UOC believers cannot support the arrival of a person, after whose decision the process of destruction of the Church was launched.

This was stated by the manager of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, commenting on the results of a study by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology, which dealt with religious issues and the attitude of Ukrainians to the visit of the head of the Phanar, writes Vzglyad.

The managers of the UOC are sure that “behind the mentioned“ numbers ”there is a gross manipulation” in order “to create the appearance of support for the Patriarchate of Constantinople and its head in the Ukrainian church environment, and to relay this appearance to the level of other Local Churches in order to try to convince them, albeit with the help of a clumsy combination – in the alleged fallacy of the assertion that Phanar aggravated the split in Ukraine”.