On May 14, St Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv is hosting a prayer celebration in honor of the hieromartyr Makariy. The event, traditional for the UOC-KP Patriarchate, was in the center of the scandal amid reports on Filaret’s intentions to resume operations of the UOC-KP despite the creation of a new Orthodox Church of Ukraine greenlighted by Constantinople, BBC Ukrainian reports.
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Patriarch Filaret speaks during the ceremony in St. Michael Cathedral in Zhytomyr on Jan 17, 2019.
