PCU "hierarch" explained the negligible number of transitions from the UOC
PCU "Bishop" Fedor Bubnyuk called the UOC's spirituality "non-Christian."
PCU "Metropolitan" of Poltava PCU Fedor Bubnyuk, in an interview with Kremenchug Gazette, acknowledged the failure of the campaign to transfer communities of the canonical Church in the Poltava region and accused the remaining faithful of supporting the "Russian world."
The representative of Dumenko's structure stated that the low statistics of community transitions is explained by the fact that a significant portion of parishioners had already changed their place of worship on their own. According to him, in recent years there has been a mass exodus of people from UOC churches in the region.
"There is an explanation for this: over these years, all conscious Ukrainians have voted with their feet. That is, they have dispersed among the parishes," Fedor explained the absence of legal transitions.
At the same time, the PCU representative claims that today only those who allegedly share the political ideas of the neighboring state remain in the UOC. In his opinion, the spirituality of the UOC is entirely permeated with the ideology of the "Russian world" and "is not Christianity as such."
"Only families or completely committed believers who devoutly believe in this 'Russian world' remain there. This entire so-called spirituality is permeated with this 'Russian world,'" the "hierarch" stated.
Separately, Fedor touched on the issue of monasteries in Poltava, Lubny, and Kozelshchyna, noting that gaining control over them is extremely difficult due to the position of the monks themselves. "Monasteries are a very conservative institution, a closed institution. I think they will be the last to carry out transitions," he concluded.
