“Patriarch” Filaret of Kyiv and Metropolitan Epifaniy of the new Ukrainian Church accuse each other of transgressing the canons

On May 28, “Patriarch” Filaret, who according to the statutes of the new Ukrainian autocephalous Church, heads the diocese of Kyiv, banned Father Alexander Trofimlyuk from celebrating. Fr Alexander is the rector of the Church of the Protection of the Mother of God in Kyiv, Metropolitan Epifaniy’s “right hand man”, and the Rector of the Kyiv Ecclesiastical Academy of the autocephalous Church. However, on May 29, Metropolitan Epifaniy (in the