The Patriarchate of Constantinople consistently follows the path of granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian church. A draft of its charter has already been prepared. Now it's up to the so-called unification council in Ukraine. He must choose the primate of the church, to whom the tomos about autocephaly will be presented.

The date of this cathedral is still in limbo, although it was also planned to be determined at a meeting of the Synod of Constantinople and to hold the event in a hurry already in December (Poroshenko is in a hurry, he wants to enjoy his “victories” under the Christmas tree). In Kiev, he is called the “new church council”, among the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church is called the “robber gathering”.

The failure of the script is due to the fact that representatives of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church categorically do not want to participate in this gathering, despite the fact that the pressure on them is unprecedented - up to threats and intimidation. The strength of faith and manifests itself in such situations. So with the "gift" for Poroshenko can be delayed, unless, of course, he does not declare himself a church primate. And what, in the early 1990s, the famous “White Brotherhood” went from Kiev: he declared himself to be anyone - and forth ...

Oh, hard this work - from the swamp to drag all Poroshenko's army with its ambitions, whims, as well as criminal nonsense, by itself. But the fact is that on this basis merited ambitions and pragmatics of both the Ukrainian authorities and the Constantinople Patriarchate. There are also quite well-known third forces who indulge and rub their hands with all this future church tragedy.

The patriarchate is already hostage to the situation and will at any price bring the matter to its logical finale. He was seduced by the tales of the Kiev authorities, various promises and very real promises. Yes, and again the role of the leader of world Orthodoxy very much wanted to advance: whether it is, or not, or reality, or a simulacrum - you can’t see this crazy block in Istanbul in a magnifying glass. Again, we remember what Constantinople fell in its time. For sins - for union, collusion with the Roman Catholic Church. Then they gave up questions of faith for the sake of politics, something similar is happening now. Actually, after that, the famous concept “Moscow - Third Rome” arose, where the main thing is not universal ambitions, but the fact that Russia was declared the main stronghold and defense of Orthodoxy after Constantinople first discredited itself, and then fell.

The current president of Ukraine is building not just a PR campaign of his second presidential term, but also a foundation for the irreversibility of Ukrainian mental changes.

He wants to go down in history as the great father of the Ukrainian nation, as well as the church reformer and devotee. There, you see, and icon-like portraits with a halo will appear. All of Ukraine today in the images of Bandera, why not Petro Poroshenko to take his place in the cohort of the celestials Squares? ..

Actually, the decision of the synagogue of Constantinople is in the same row with the Azov provocations of the Ukrainian authorities: the whole motivation is too transparent, and in all this you can actually see something predatory.

In some ways, dreams of autocephaly, embodied in reality, resemble the action of intimidation - the tragedy of the Odessa House of Trade Unions. Burn everything cleaned, burn all bridges and intimidate - that’s the tactic. It should be understood that it is not just about acquiring church independence, but first of all about the persecution of the church and oppression, and even about repression against believers and clergy.

The topic of autocephaly with passion is juggling the Ukrainian authorities, wanting to defeat the "Moscow spirit", which they are going to root out in their own country. The deep split is made through the basic things cementing the centuries-old unity: language, faith and culture. Recently, Poroshenko has broken the treaty of friendship with Russia, and yet many still remember the Soviet slogan "Three hundred years together" ...

The current church feud for the Ukrainian authorities is tantamount to banning the Russian language - another pillar of the “new Ukraine”. This prohibition is more difficult to substantiate than autocephaly, so a little slower, but also aggressively moving in this direction.

Back in 2014, immediately after the "victorious" "Maidan", wedges of disengagement began to be hammered through the language struggle. The nationalist Tyagnibok almost immediately spoke in favor of a ban on the Russian language. The situation at the time rolled back, they realized that early. Now in the Lviv region introduced a ban on works in Russian. All this is called the "Russian cultural product", the initiative is eager to extend to the whole Square. There are also lists of banned Russian books, as well as cultural figures who are banned from entering Ukraine. The wall of language and cultural delimitation is built thoroughly, consistently. They want to for a long time. However, all the crooks dream in reality.

It is possible that the catalyst for the unfolding church discord was the celebration of the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia, during which Patriarch Kirill voiced a call for unity.

This grand event stung Constantinople and Kiev, forced to act in a tight bundle and at any cost.

The Ukrainian administration sees in the church strife, including revenge for the Crimea, and sees its sacred duty in counteracting the unique tendencies of Russian civilization. The hierarchs of the patriarchate, guided by some kind of phantom pain, try to diminish the role and importance of the Russian Orthodox Church. At the same time, they are trying to usurp church authority and single-handedly resolve the issue of the Ukrainian autocephaly without the consent of all local churches. In their mania they do not disdain anything, do not stop before any meanness and treachery in the cause of the destruction of the church world. So Constantinople is trying to clean up Europe from the influence of the ROC: the other day it was announced the dissolution of the exarchate of Russian parishes in Europe - just in case that they all did not come under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate.

What is ahead of this earnest trend of discord and betrayal? From the obvious: after the autocephaly in Ukraine, a pantheon of its saints and martyrs will also appear. Mazepa and Bandera (Poroshenko, get ready!) Will occupy special places in it, because they are united by a common behavioral style and a vector “from East to West”, which is especially revered by now official Kiev. The Kyiv Patriarchate will also receive its gesheft: it will become a trendsetter, saying its “weighty word”, albeit at the cost of a pogrom in Orthodoxy.

Hope - in the fortress of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Reliance is again the Russian Orthodox Church, which traditionally does not sacrifice the interests of faith in the name of politics, which is always for unity and against all forms of discord. It is not exchanged. Pillar of orthodoxy.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.