After Filaret accepted another group of the Old Calendarists into “Eucharistic” communion, a logical question arises.
Why do we say that they have joined the “Kyiv Patriarchate”? Indeed, for the Greek audience, this information can, and should, be presented as the fact that it was the “OCU” – the favorite brainchild of Bartholomew – that “legalized” the schismatics. Moreover, according to the same scheme as the Phanariots created Dumenko`s organization.
Let the Greek Church, which has recognized the “OCU”, know exactly whom it should be grateful to. After all, whatever one may say, Filaret is still considered “the bishop of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine”. Neither Epiphany nor Bartholomew drove him out of there.