“The unity between the Russian and Ukrainian churches is preserved, and we will continue to strengthen this unity, we will continue to pray for our one holy Orthodox Church,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Metropolitan Hilarion noted that the declarations of independence of the UOC confirm that its ecclesiastical center is located in Kyiv and that it is independent of Moscow in administrative, financial and other respects.
Earlier it became known that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) decided on its full autonomy and independence.
According to the head of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with Society and the Media of the Moscow Patriarchate, Vladimir Legoyda, the Russian Orthodox Church has not received any appeals from the UOC after the decision on full independence and independence was made.