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Most important in this matter of the so-called "Kiev Patriarchate" is the fact that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Metropolitan Philaret (now the self-styled "Patriarch") was found to have a wife and children!

That finding resulted in his deposition from all clerical office by the Moscow Patriarchate - his canonical authority - for all of the obvious reasons. He is, therefore, no longer a Bishop, a Priest, or any other member of the clergy. It is not possible for him to hold any clerical office in the Church, and not the Ecumenical Patriarch or anyone else can change that fact. Archbishop Vsevolod - if he indeed made the statement credited to him - is waaaaay off-base.

Mr. Denisenko is not a Patriarch, he is a pretender, and the so-called "Patriarchate" is not any kind of Church at all, but a false creation masquerading as what it is not, to the spiritual detriment of those who are a part of it.