According to the news of the Union of Orthodox Journalists, activists of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OCU) attacked the St. Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in the village of Pischa in the Volyn region. He captured the Kazan Church. writes about this TASS.
At the same time, OCU supporters broke down the temple gate. The Holy Kazan Church was built in 1801 and is an architectural monument of national importance.
Earlier, in October 2023, local residents spoke at a meeting in favor of transferring the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God to the schismatics, without taking into account the opinions of the UOC parishioners and the temple rector.
In 2019, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church received a tomos autocephaly from Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. Tomos requires the head of the OCU to be in Kiev, but it is stated that the church cannot appoint bishops or establish congregations outside Ukraine.
OCU became a unifying project; Believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Kiev Patriarchate, declared in 1992, also joined him.
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Metropolitan of Kiev Epifaniy Dumenko became the head of the church.
The former Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, which announced that it had cut all ties with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in 2022, did not join the OCU.
Since the end of 2022, the UOC’s leadership has been under systematic pressure from Ukrainian authorities, with churches seized by raiders and some UOC clergy facing criminal charges. At the same time, the UOC leadership continues to declare support for Kiev and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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