Fanariots and their supporters simply substitute or provoke hierarchs from other Local Churches by concelebrating with commemoration of the head of the OCU Epiphany Dumenko. This is far from the first such case. Archpriest Nikolai Danilevich, the deputy head of the Department for External Church Relations of the UOC, wrote about this in his Telegram channel.

“I believe that there is no need to dramatize the situation with the commemoration of Epiphany by Emmanuel in the presence of Cyprian. This does not mean that the Bulgarian Church will recognize the “OCU”.

Metropolitan Emmanuel simply set up Vladyka Cyprian with this commemoration.

A similar thing has already happened with another Bulgarian bishop – with Vladyka Nikolai of Plovdiv, who served somewhere in Greece and during his reign they also remembered the head of the OCU. Not he, but in his presence. This was about 2 years ago.

With such antics, the Phanariots and their supporters simply substitute or provoke hierarchs from other Local Churches, who in general should be more careful when dealing with representatives of the Phanar.

I know that the Bulgarian Church distances itself from the recognition of the “OCU”, and after the latest decisions of the ROC Synod on Africa, it intends even more to stay away from these problems, “wrote the speaker of the UOC.

As reported, on December 26, Metropolitan Cyprian of Staraya Zagoriia of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church took part in a liturgy at the church of the Orthodox Bulgarian community of St. Stephen Balatas in Istanbul, where Epiphany of Kiev was commemorated.