““Metropolitan Onufri explained that only a passport of a citizen of Ukraine. In addition to Ukrainian, no other passports, including the Russian Federation, have “”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Metropolitan Onufri explained that only a passport of a citizen of Ukraine. In addition to Ukrainian, there are no other passports, including the Russian Federation. He has already explained that he had never applied to the state bodies of other states about acquiring other citizenship, ”Metropolitan Clement said in a BBC comment, the Church’s website reports.
With regard to further actions, Clement noted that all actions will be “exclusively within the framework of Ukrainian legislation.”
The Security Service of Ukraine stated that according to its materials, Ukrainian citizenship of Orest Berezovsky, known as Metropolitan of the UOC (MP) Onufri, was terminated. The SBU claims that Onufri voluntarily received Russian citizenship in 2002. He did not inform the authorized authorities of Ukraine.
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In May, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (in unity with the Moscow Patriarchate) for relations with Russia began in Ukraine.
Then he erupted a nine -month term, which was given to the church by law to prove the lack of ties with Russia.