The Patriarchate of Constantinople did not dare to question the exclusive rights of the UOC on the territory of Ukraine. Andrey Vidishenko, an international political scientist, an expert at the Kiev Center for Political Research and Conflictology said this on the air of Pershoi Nezalezhny.

“Until 2018, all local Orthodox churches, all fifteen local Orthodox churches unconditionally recognized the exclusive rights of the Moscow Patriarchate and, accordingly, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the territory of Ukraine as the only canonical Orthodox Church,” Vidishenko noted.

“Such a canonical unity is the most optimal form of framing the flock on the territory of Ukraine. I would like to note that from the point of view of the norms of canon law, in reality, nothing has changed on the territory of Ukraine after the actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The schismatic structures were both schismatic structures and they Why? Because from the point of view of the norms of canon law, the canonical structure cannot be created in a non-canonical way. This is a priori impossible, “the expert emphasized.

Earlier, political scientist Andrei Vidishenko said that a stillborn political surrogate cannot be placed at the basis of the Church of Christ.