Mulcahy was then ordained to the priesthood of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church on March 20, 2012, by "Bishop" Paul Peter Jesep.
Paul Peter Jesep is a lawyer and "bishop" in the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Part breakoff and part self-startup, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church is not recognized by canonical Orthodox churches. As one critic termed them, "They're Protestants with a liturgical itch. ... They're NOT Orthodox, and we shouldn't allow them to usurp the title."
Like Mulcahy, Jesep is a gay activist. The uncanonical "bishop" penned a glowing introduction to the book, "Exploring Homosexuality in Eastern Orthodoxy," which was written by a former Orthodox student turned Episcopalian. In the introduction, Jesep espouses quite convoluted Trinitarian theology, calling the Holy Spirit, "She," and "God's constant companion," and "humanity's teacher." "She (the Holy Spirit) is logic, intuition, and commonsense," Jesep wrote.
Jesep goes on to blame the Church for slavery and the Salem witch trials. He quotes an Orthodox saint, St. Tikhon of Zadonsk, who advocates submission to authorities, as the Apostle Paul does in Titus 3:1 and Romans 13:1-7. He concludes, "The Orthodox Church justified and legitimized a corrupt, abusive form of government that exploited people." Then "despite Church teachings of the day to the contrary, she (the Holy Spirit) took humanity by the hand."
Jesep also accuses another Orthodox saint, St. John Chrysostom, of "advocating for the homophobia that abuses," and "laying the foundations for anti-Semitism that continues to this day in Orthodoxy." He says the Orthodox Divine Liturgy was filled with "offensive, un-Christian" passages, until finally "Orthodoxy had the spiritual security to realize the error of its ways," and priests changed the text of the liturgical prayers.”
