Filaret claims to take Lavras from the Church

May 8, 2018. The head of the UOC KP said that the Kiev-Pechersk and Pochaev Lavras are state property, and “there is no other option” except to hand them over to the SLC “by law.” He stated this in an interview published on the website of the UOC KP.

Filaret stressed that he was going to run for the head of the SLC, “because it is necessary to complete the difficult task of uniting the Church”, and that “in the name of the unity of the Church” he is ready to forget everything that “was done to him” and that “was said about him in the Moscow Patriarchate”.

He also explained that, in his opinion, the state should hand over the Kiev-Pechersk and Pochaev Lavras to “its Church”: “You want to ask: who will the Kiev-Pechersk and Pochaev Lavras belong to? The answer is: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. This is the property of the state. And it has the right to hand over these Ukrainian shrines. To whom? The Russian Church represented by the same exarchate or its Church? Naturally, to the Ukrainian one. There is no other option. Everything will be only by law.”

At the same time, the head of the Kiev Patriarchate claims not only to the Lavras but also to the name of the UOC.

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http://spzh.news/en/news/53196-filaret-zajavil-chto-pretendujet-na-mesto-glavy-jepc-i-zaberet-lavry-u-cerkvi