Controversies
There have been various, but unsubstantiated, rumours regarding Patriarch Filaret: he is alleged to have a common-law wife and also children in contravention of his monastic vows; it is alleged that he was recruited as a KGB agent; also that he had been guilty of improper financial dealings. On June 11, 1992, the Hierarchical Council of the Russian Orthodox Church defrocked Patriarch Filaret and then excommunicated him in 1997, claiming his actions had constituted a schism. The Synod of the UOC-KP refused to recognise these acts, claiming that the Russian Orthodox Church does not have any authority over clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
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