The Synod of the OCU decided to send letters to Constantinople Patriarch Bartholomew and Romanian Patriarch Daniel regarding the decision of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church of February 29, 2024 to create its own structure on the territory of Ukraine. This is reported by the website Pomisna.info.

“One of the fundamental principles of the canonical order and structure of the Orthodox Church is that each local Orthodox Church has exclusive jurisdiction within its canonical territory. Also, the Great Council of Constantinople in 1872 established that the basis for the formation of the canonical structures of the Church can not be exclusively tribal, phyletic principle, which does not unite the Orthodox faithful, but divides the unified Body of the Church and creates schism,” – said in a statement of the OCU.

Synod Epiphanius said that on the entire internationally recognized territory of Ukraine “canonical jurisdiction has only the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and no other.”

The OCU recalled that back in 2019 they formed the “Orthodox Romanian Vicariate” for religious organizations in Ukraine “with a predominant number of ethnic Romanians” and expressed hope that “all issues that require their regulation will be resolved by the Romanian and Ukrainian Local Churches in the spirit of brotherly love, canonical order and the definitions of the Tomos on the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.”