Council Local Council On 20 June 2019, the Local Council took place, at the St. Volodymyr's Cathedral. Only two bisops came: and his vicar, bishop who head parishes of the UOC-KP in Russia and Moldova. A dozen priests also came at the council. In the same day the Patriarch Emeritus of Kyiv, Filaret (Denysenko) consecrated as bishops two priests that have been expelled from the Ukrainian autocephalous church: the Archimandrite Andriy (Marutsak) and the Hieromonk Ilya (Zelensky). The holy service took place in the Kyiv’s Saint Sophia's Cathedral and had as its co-consecrators the Metropolitan of Belgorod, Joasaph (Shibaev), and the Bishop of Valujsk, Petr (Moskalev). The latter was expelled from the autocephalous Church. Since the Ukrainian autocephalous Church "is approved by the Patriarchate of Constantinople, but excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church", the consecration of two priests expelled by the autocephalous Church has been seen as a patriarchal schism. The Local Council approved a resolution saying the council abrogated the decisions of the unification council. The resolution also stated that "[t]he UOC-KP continues to be the owner of all funds, all property (movable and immovable) purchased [with] its own money or transferred to it by state authorities or local government bodies". The resolution also said that the tomos of autocephaly of the OCU placed the OCU in dependence of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The resolution also stated that the council thanked Patriarch Bartholomew "for his attempts to resolve the Ukrainian church problem," but emphasized that they disagreed with the text of the Tomos. The Local Council also elected two new bishops. The document also reaffirmed that Filaret was the head of the UOC-KP, elected "for life [...] on October 20–22, 1995". Filaret declared on the same day: "Ukraine will have the Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Orthodox Church in Ukraine that has a tomos - [...] a limited tomos subordinating it to the Ecumenical Patriarchate - and there will be a third independent church - the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate." He added that if the OCU wanted to unite with the UOC-KP, nobody would be against it. On 21 June, Filaret asked Ukrainian Interior Minister Askan Avakov to protect the faithful and the property of the Kyiv Patriarchate from the "illegal actions of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine"; Filaret gave the examples of the St. Feodosiya's monastery and the Uspensky shrine which he claims have been