From Premier Christian News:
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has been accused of following the “newest bloody antichrist” by the Primate of All Ukraine.
Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv, leader of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) which is aligned to Constantinople, described a ruler of the “Russian empire of evil” but did not directly name Vladimir Putin in his 1 November sermon. In the sermon, which had been translated, Metropolitan Epiphanius said: “Unfortunately, the same spirit that prompted the pharisees to reject Christ, that prompted the false brothers to harm the Apostle Paul and divide the Church of Christ on the sign of circumcision – this same spirit of pharisaism and legalism divides the Church in our time. “For it is precisely this spirit of old legalism that the followers of the Moscow Patriarchate, who divide the Church, are gripped by. They reject faith as the basis of church unity, putting their own rules and regulations in its place, just as the opponents of the Apostle Paul put the main sign not faith in Christ, but old circumcision.