A special status is being prepared for the UOC after its ban, - mass media

The state is preparing a «special status» for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which will be applied after the bill No. 8371 aimed at banning the UOC is passed. Such a status will affect that part of the Church, which will be ready to go for a break with the ROC, but at the same time does not agree to unite with the OCU. This was reported to the publication «RBC-Ukraine» sources in the Verkhovna Rada.

«The essence is that part of the UOC, which, in principle, is not opposed to really finally break all church-canonical ties with the Russian Orthodox Church, would like at the same time to get some official place in the Orthodox world, and not to remain in the «gray zone». After all, for many representatives of the UOC, joining the OCU is absolutely unacceptable for a number of reasons, including personal ones. And this place could be formalized in the form of the very «temporary tomos». More correctly, the Ecumenical Patriarchate could create its own exarchate in Ukraine, which would include the part of the UOC that can break with the ROC, but does not want to go to the OCU,» — the publication said.

We shall remind you that earlier Ukrainian political analyst Kostyantyn Bondarenko commented on Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent statement in which he announced the ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Bondarenko believes that the head of state is deliberately raising the degree of controversy in order to strengthen his position in the imminent negotiations with the Russian president, where the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will become one of the bargaining items.