Schismatic community received into canonical Orthodox Church in Suma Region of the Ukraine

On September 26, 2011, the eve of the feast of the Exaltation of the Honorable and Live-Giving Cross of the Lord, in the town of Shostka (Suma Province, Ukraine) a schismatic community lead by a former "priest" of the so-called Kiev Patriarchate returned to the bosom of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Earlier, "Hieromonk Silhouan," (Vladimir Skiba) a clergyman of the Konotop diocese of the UKC, KP" went to Bishop Joseph of Konotop and Glukhov with repentance and a request that he be accepted along with the members of the Holy Trinity community into communion with the canonical Konotop diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Bishop Joseph performed the rite of unification to the Orthodox Church. The members of the community confessed their loyalty to Christ's Church and renunciation of false beliefs and schismatic activities of the breakaway "Patriarch Philaret" of the Kiev Patriarchate (Mikhail Antonovich Denisenko, formerly Metropolitan Philaret of the Moscow Patriarchate), reports Patriachia.ru.

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