BBC: Ecumenical Patriarchate assessed Filaret’s statement

The Ecumenical Patriarchate insists on the absence of the patriarchate in Ukraine.

An interlocutor of the BBC News in the Ecumenical Patriarchate assessed Filaret’s statement as untrue, Ukrayinska Pravda reports.

"It’s a total lie,” the media outlet quotes its source.

“As the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew said, there is no Patriarch in Kyiv because there has never been a patriarch. Filaret is a former Metropolitan of Kyiv,” the interlocutor of the BBC commented on the situation.

Patriarch Filaret stated that he wanted to lead the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, and wants to let Epifaniy represent the Ukrainian Church abroad.