According to a statement, Archimandrite Avraamy (Lotysh), a resident of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, appointed by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as the abbot of the monastery, has been banned from serving in the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). Published on the canonical Church’s website.
The report states that the ban on the activities of the archimandrite was imposed by the clergy “to avoid division and gravely violate the oath”. He was banned from serving by decree of the UOC Primate – Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Onufry (Berezovsky).
Metropolitan Epiphany, former head of the separatist Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OCU) appointed Lotysh as Acting Governor of the Lavra.
Ukrainian authorities again demanded that the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra brothers leave this place, but Avraamy, turning to the Lavra brothers, who remained in the ranks of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, urged the monks to stay in the monastery, but according to the publication “Strana .ua”, “get to know the new canonical reality ”and go to the OCU .