The Metropolitan of the UOC Onufri has issued a passport of the Russian Federation more than 20 years ago - media (photo)
The photo shows the inscription about the authenticity of the passport. A passport in the name of Berezovsky was published in March 2002 in the police department in the Moscow district North Butovo. The clergyman was registered in Moscow. At the same time, the Search System of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation did not have an invalid passport in the name of Orest Berezovsky.
Accordingly, the Metropolitan did not give up Russian citizenship. The UOC -MP stated that Metropolitan Onufri had no other passports except Ukrainian. In a comment to the "public" representative of the church, Clement said that Onufri had never appealed to other states, including the Russian Federation with a statement of citizenship. According to him, Onufri will defend his rights as a citizen of Ukraine and can challenge Zelensky's decree.
Clement is convinced that the decision to terminate Onufri's citizenship is subject to a "certain legal doubt. " It should be noted that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky suspended Ukrainian citizenship Onufri on the SBU. The intelligence service stated that the Metropolitan was in contact with the governing bodies of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow and in every way hindered the canonical independence of the Ukrainian Church.
Onufrius supports the actions of the ROC and her Patriarch Cyril (Gundyaeva), who has repeatedly blessed the invaders and supported the genocide of Ukrainians, reminded in the SBU. Focus wrote earlier that in April 2023, Onufri recognized his Russian citizenship. According to him, he abandoned the passport of the Russian Federation since the beginning of the war of 2014.