Dozens of communities and several monasteries in different regions of Ukraine have joined the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. This was announced by the Primate of the OCU, Metropolitan Epiphany.

“Dozens of communities, a number of monasteries in different regions of Ukraine have already voluntarily and consciously fulfilled their canonical duty and followed the Tomos of autocephaly, having made a choice in favor of the Church and Ukraine. The door of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and our hearts are open to all! "

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Dozens of communities, low monasteries in different regions of Ukraine have already voluntarily and acknowledged their canonical bindings and followed the Tomos about autocephaly, raising a vote against the mischief of the Church and Ukraine. The doors of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and our hearts open for all!

— Metropolitan Epifaniy (@Epifaniy) March 26, 2022.

Earlier, the Holy Synod of the OCU called on the bishops, clergy and parishioners of the communities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate to “follow the Tomos” and join the OCU.

Recall that a trusted ally of Vladimir Putin, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, refused to condemn the Kremlin’s decision to invade Ukraine and called Russia’s opponents in Ukraine an “evil force”.

In his Sunday sermon before Lent, he said that one of the reasons for the war in Ukraine was gay parades organized in the West..

Subsequently, a number of Christian churches distanced themselves from Russian Orthodoxy and Patriarch Kirill, and some parthias of the UOC-MP in Ukraine began to come under the jurisdiction of the OCU.

As for the head of the UOC-MP Metropolitan Onufry, on the first day of the war he called on the President of the aggressor country Putin to immediately stop the "