 Patriarch of the UAOC Mstyslav (Skrypnyk) did not accept this treason of the UAOC and appealed to the Ukrainian higher authorities and believers of the UAOC not to acknowledge this unification and to oppose this betrayal.But the higher authorities of Ukraine supported the Patriarch Filaret (Denysenko) and illegally handed down all the church property of the UAOC under Filaret Denysenko.On 11 June 1993 Patriarch of Kiev and all Ukraine Mstyslav died.