This was announced by Metropolitan Maxim Yanninsky at the end of the Council of Bishops.

“The decision of the council says that it recognizes the right of the Ecumenical Patriarch to grant autocephaly and the right to bless the most blessed archbishop (head of the non-canonical church of Ukraine Epiphanius),” RIA Novosti quoted the metropolitan as saying.

It is noted that there has not yet been an official statement based on the results of the bishop's.

Earlier, the deputy head of the external church relations department of the non-canonical Orthodox Church of Ukraine (PCU), Evstraty Zorya, stated that the leader of the non-canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP) Filaret (Denisenko) sued him.