Metropolitan Luka of Zaporizhzhia (UOC-MP) claims that the OCU is not a Church

He stated this during a live broadcast, answering questions from Forpost journalists.

According to the Metropolitan, the OCU is a religious organization.

“I am a member of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and shall remain one. I cannot join the Church offered to me, for it is a religious organization, not a Church. I cannot call it a Church in the sense of “Christ's” Church, for Christ doesn't beat and doesn't drive anyone away,” he replied.

Prior to this, Metropolitan Luka called the OCU “an experimental platform for a new union.”

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