Ukrainian Orthodox leader pleads for end to Ukraine-Russia clashes
May 18, 2015
The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church allied with the Moscow patriarchate has issued a plea for an end to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev bitterly complained that propaganda is “destroying brotherly relations” between Ukrainians and Russians. He urged all Orthodox believers, and especially members of the clergy, to recognize the duty to end the conflict.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow patriarchate has sought to walk a tightrope in the current political crisis, holding together the Ukrainian faithful without directly bucking the strong pro-Russian line of the Moscow patriarchate.
Metropolitan Onufry is engaged in a struggle for control of Orthodox parishes in Ukraine with Patriarch Filaret, who split with Moscow after Ukrainian independence and set up the rival Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev patriarchate.
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