“Anathema to Epiphany?": how many canons did the head of the OCU violate by performing a funeral litany for Pope Francis?

All funeral procedures for the late Pope Francis have come to an end. During these days, we specifically monitored the behavior of the hierarchs of the Local Orthodox Churches. We saw nothing but protocol statements and presence during the funeral in the Vatican. And this is what happens…

The head of the OCU, Epiphany Dumenko, has gone further than anyone else in the development of ecumenism and neo-unity. He was the only one who officially performed funeral services for the late head of the Vatican. Even Patriarch Bartholomew, for all his warm attitude toward the RCC and the Roman Pontificate, did not think of publicly convening a bunch of clergy in one of the main churches of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to pray “for the repose of the newly departed servant of God, Pope Francis, and for the forgiveness of all sin, both willful and unwilling.” Maybe he would have liked to, but he realized that it would be too much even for him. But Epiphany did it.

Let us give a hint to those of our readers from the OCU who subscribe to the channel. Your patron has committed not one or even two canonical crimes by serving a funeral litany for the Pope. This is not just some kind of image move, but a specific, in fact, church-wide prayer for a man who recognized during his life: 1) his supremacy over the entire Church (the Catholic dogma of the supremacy of the Pontiff, instead of the Orthodox doctrine that the head of the Church is Christ); 2) that the Holy Spirit does not come from the Father (according to the Orthodox Creed), but from the Father and the Son (the heresy of filioque) 3) that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived immaculately (which is incompatible with Orthodox dogma in the field of soteriology), 4) that homosexuals can be ordained (which contradicts the canons of the Orthodox Church). And there are many other things that could be the subject of a separate publication. Thus, the head of the OCU, who claims an equal place among the Representatives of the Local Orthodox Churches, performed a church prayer for a heretic, which, according to the Canons of the Orthodox Church, is directly subject to excommunication.

If this issue is not considered at the next meeting of the Synod of the OCU, and the hierarchs of the structure do not react in any way to Dumenko’s canonical crimes, then you will only confirm all the arguments that are published about you in the Orthodox media, claiming that the OCU is an experiment and a step towards the restoration of the union between Orthodoxy and Catholicism on Ukrainian soil. Try to at least pretend to be Orthodox.