In 2018, Filaret (primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate) and Metropolitan Epiphanius (primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine) came into conflict over disagreements concerning the model of governance, the management of the diaspora, and the name and the charter of the newly-formed Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). The conflict started during the process of the granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and continued after the reception of the tomos (official decree) of autocephaly of the OCU in January 2019. It resulted in the departure of Filaret, along with two bishops and a dozen priests, from the OCU on 20 June 2019 after a Local Council convened by Filaret, returning to an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate. Filaret's demands Diaspora, Holy synod, primate role There were numerous things with which Filaret did not agree in the OCU. Filaret wanted: To reorganize the Holy synod of the OCU by having 12 permanent appointed members of the holy synod instead of 3. To lead the OCU together with the Metropolitan, Epiphanius, and claims it was agreed so before the unification council. That the OCU be able to take care of the Ukrainian Orthodox diaspora. That the OCU be able to make its own myrrh. That the Ecumenical Patriarchate should not have a say in the internal conflict of the OCU. OCU's name Filaret told members of the media department of the dissolved Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) to convey the message that the OCU was not a new church and that the tomos of autocephaly was given to the UOC-KP. Filaret also instructed them to "eradicate" the name "Orthodox Church of Ukraine" because The Orthodox Church in Ukraine' means that this is not the ruling Church, but only one of the Churches in Ukraine ... And we are the ruling Church in Ukraine." This discussion between Filaret and the members was recorded and the pro-Moscow anonymous Union of Orthodox Journalists shared the recording on its website on 23 January 2019. On 23 January 2019, Filaret declared in an interview given to the Federal News Agency that the OCU should be called "Ukrainian Orthodox Church". He says the origin of the name of the OCU is due to the fact that "there is an Orthodox church in Constantinople, and then they go [the exarchates dependent on Phanar]: the Orthodox Church in America, Canada,