News channel «1+1» confused the main protagonists of their defamatory program about the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church

May 29, 2017 – The news channel has once again made an error when filming a defamatory program about the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP). They mixed up the photos of the clergy in the video clip.

During the May 27 video clip entitled “Ukrainian sensations. Behind God’s bosom”, the news channel claimed that the wife of Vitaly Kosovksy, the Rector of Svyato-Ilyinsk Church in Kiev, supposedly owns a “luxurious auto park”.

His god-sent wife is named ‘Mother Tatiana’”. However, when showing the wife of Archpriest Vitaly Kosovsky, they showed the photo of Abbess Seraphima (Shevchik), the Rector of the Saint-Archangel-Michael monastery in Odessa. This is despite the photo of the Hegumeness Seraphima being shown several times.

Abbess Seraphima is the Rector of the Odessa Archangel-Michael monastery, the Chairwoman of the Synod Commission “Church and Culture” of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. At 17, she joined the Pokrovsky Monastery in Kiev. Four years later, she became an inokiness, and in 1994, she became a nun.

Video document from 1+1

https://youtu.be/w8A5Nbq0Pqo

Sources

http://uoj.org.ua/novosti/sobytiya/p-professionaly-1-1-pereputal-kievskuyu-matushku-avtoledi-s-nastoyatelnitsey-odesskogo-monastyrya