Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to have closed-door meeting with Epiphany Dumenko of the OCU

Washington, D.C., October 23, 2019

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk, the Chairman of the Russian Church’s Department for External Church Relations, in Washington D.C. yesterday.

Today he will meet with Epiphany Dumenko, the primate of the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine.”

The press page on the Department of State website reports: “9:30 a.m. Secretary Pompeo meets with Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Metropolitan Epiphany, at the Department of State. (CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE).”

Epiphany arrived in America last week to receive the Athenagoras Human Rights Award from the Constantinople-backing Order of St. Andrew-Archons, while his church continues to physically and legally persecute the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, as recognized by the United Nations’ Office for Human Rights.

Pompeo openly supports Epiphany and his nationalistic OCU. The Secretary called the “metropolitan” just days after the “unification council” in December to ensure him of the U.S.’s support for his church. The State Department also issued a message on the “momentous occasion” of the OCU receiving a tomos of autocephaly from Constantinople in January, and Pompeo and the Department have issued several other statements of support.

Secretary Pompeo was also recently in Greece, where he signed a new defense pact, allowing the U.S. to expand militarily in Greece. A few days after his visit, the Greek Church suddenly announced that it would hold an extraordinary session of the Bishops’ Council to address the Ukrainian issue, at which the bishops recognized Pat. Bartholomew’s right to grant autocephaly in Ukraine.

Pompeo also met with the primate of the schismatic “Macedonian Orthodox Church” earlier this month.

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10/23/2019

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Dumenko was solemnly awarded the Athenagoras Human Rights Award, given every year “to a person or organization that has consistently exemplified by action, purpose and dedication, concern for the basic rights and religious freedom of all people,” during the annual banquet of the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk, the Chairman of the Russian Church’s Department for External Church Relations, in Washington D.C. today.
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The American government’s support for, and further, its role in the creation of the new schismatic church in Ukraine has been openly acknowledged on both the American and Ukrainian side, though the Patriarchate of Constantinople continues to deny that there was any political influence on its decision to create it and grant it a tomos of autocephaly.
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