We did not see a mass collaboration of the UOC clergy with the aggressor, - Archbishop Sylvester

In his article for Dialog.Tut, the rector of the Kiev Theological Academy and Seminary, Archbishop Sylvester, stated that the accusations of the UOC of propagandizing the “Russian world” are unfair, since most of the clergy of the UOC clearly sided with Ukraine after a full-scale Russian invasion, and did not take the side of the country aggressor.

“After February 24, 2022, we did not see a mass collaboration of the UOC clergy with the aggressor. Despite the fact that our Church has been accused for years of promoting the “Russian world” and even preparing a Russian invasion, life has proved the unfairness of these accusations,” the hierarch noted.

At the same time, Archbishop Sylvester admits that there were facts of collaboration in the UOC, but this was not a mass phenomenon among the clergy.

According to him, there are thousands of cases of high treason or collaboration in Ukrainian courts, but only a few dozen of them are related to representatives of the Church.