As we reported earlier, on August 22, 2024, a delegation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which arrived in Ukraine to try to resolve the church conflict, held a series of meetings with representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the OCU.
“Fake news": in the ОCU told about Bartholomew's reaction to rumors about the exarchate for the UOC
A member of the OCU delegation, Yevstratiy Zorya, who visited the residence of the Patriarch of Constantinople in Istanbul on August 13, said that Patriarch Bartholomew denied rumors about the possible creation of an exarchate of Phanar for the banned Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Zoria claims that the patriarch called such information “fake news,” thus indicating his negative attitude to such a development. Zorya said this in a comment to the Glavkom publication.
“At the meeting in Constantinople, we touched upon this issue because it was often thrown in at the level of rumors in the press. The patriarch said clearly, directly and unequivocally: this is ‘fake news’. That’s the English expression he used. He really reacted to it as nonsense,” – Zoria said.
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