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Oleh Kulyk (Patriarch Moisey) of the UAOC-C, a small faction of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church, was excommunicated by his former Synod this week, for supporting heretical beliefs and performing sacrilegous ordinations:

http://www.risu.org.ua/eng/news/article;7532/

Oleh Kulyk, a former priest of the UOC-USA left that Church when it became a part of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. After that he started contacts with the autocephalists in Ukraine and eventualy founded his own small Church, the UAOC-C, of which he declared himself Patriarch.

Some months after his elevation, most of his Bishops left him to form the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church in America under Archbishop Ioan of the USA.

Moisey had been criticized for receiving several episcopi-vagantes with doubtful Apostolic Succession abroad, and profesing liberal doctrines on the Eucharist, veneration of relics and re-incarnation.

The UAOC-C no longer has bishops in Ukraine.

That whole notice of excommunication sounds so, so... Latin!

"Ipso facto?" "Latae sentiae?" The use of plural (is this regularly done in Orthodox episcopal circles)?

Logos Teen

It's my understanding that ipso facto in legal terms refers to something which starts to run "inmediately" and latae sententiae something that applies automaticaly.

It's said that someone who falls into schism or heresy inmediately losses his jurisdiction and places himself outside the Church "automaticaly" and I believe this is ackowledge by both Eastern and Western Christians.

However, since the letter speaks about continuous facts and not about a single act, I would have refrained from using the word "ipso facto".

I also think the letter looks quite Latin style. :p