Original sentence: After the unification council of the OCU, they stated that Filaret was henceforth "honorary patriarch", but what this phrase meant was difficult to understand.Filaret was given the title of the "honorary patriarch" Orthodox Church of Ukraine.He was defrocked and in 1997 excommunicated by the ROC.He was the honorary Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (2018–2019), and the former Metropolitan of Kyiv of the Russian Orthodox Church (1966–1992).Indeed, such status is not stipulated in the Charter of the OCU, adopted on December 15.Patriarch Filaret (secular name Mykhailo Antonovych Denysenko, born 23 January 1929) is the primate and Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (1995–2018; 2019–present).That is why the council, which took place on December 15, did not clarify the new status of Patriarch Filaret.Volodymyr Burega, Professor and Vice-Rector of the Kyiv Theological Academy, explains this title this way: "in December [2018], no one wanted to aggravate relationships with Patriarch Philaret, since holding the council and receiving the Tomos were at stake
Edited sentence: After leaving the Moscow Patriarchate in 1992, he was defrocked and in 1997 excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church.Filaret (; secular name: Mykhailo Antonovych Denysenko, ; born 23 January 1929) is the diocesan bishop of Kyiv and the Patriarch Emeritus of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.Filaret was given the title of the Patriarch Emeritus of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.He was the primate and Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate and the Metropolitan of Kyiv in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate (previously – the Ukrainian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church)