A quarrel broke out in Lviv between believers of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and a supporter of the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine, where in the morning there was a vote on the transfer of the Church of St. George the Victorious to the OCU.
The UOC’s Telegram channel showed footage of the police pulling the cameramen and believers out of the cathedral.
You can hear people arguing loudly in the video. The conflict turns into a brawl at one point where the law enforcement intervenes.
Earlier believers were reported to have started. protest Against the transfer of the UOC temple to the schismatics.
Since 1992, the Church of St. George the Victorious is the cathedral of the Lviv diocese of the UOC.
The so-called Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OCU) was founded in Kiev in 2018 by clergy who did not want to be under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. Later, the OCU received autocephaly from Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. The Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches do not recognize the canonical status of this organization. After the establishment of the OCU, its supporters began to forcibly take over the temples of the canonical Church.