Today, March 20, a meeting of the Holy Synod of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate was held, during which they were supposed to consider the situation around the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. After that, members of the Holy Synod of the UOC-MP arrived at the office of the president, where they demanded a meeting with the head of state Volodymyr Zelensky, the press service of the church reports..

Among those who demand on Bankovaya that the president, Metropolitan Onufry, the abbot of the Holy Dormition Monastery of the UOC-MP Pavel (Lebed), as well as Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye, come out to them. Last December, the latter met with his subordinates in the occupied territories, where he exhorted them to ask for submission to the Russian Orthodox Church..

According to information on the website of the UOC-MP, a representative of the presidential office became a member of the Synod and offered to transfer their appeal to the president. However, they still insist on a personal meeting with Zelensky.

“Members of the Holy Synod wrote an appeal to resident Volodymyr Zelensky and want to personally explain to him the situation as it really is.. We have come to convey to the president the position of not only members of the Holy Synod, but also millions of believers of the UOC. We believe that the president is not being told the truth about the UOC. Judging by the statements, information about the UOC is distorted and a false image of our believers is created. We have always advocated a constructive approach, striving to develop relations between the state and the UOC. Such a dialogue is an important aspect related to the development of civil society,” said the official speaker of the UOC-MP, Metropolitan Kliment (Dinner).

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In October last year, the SBU conducts searches in the buildings of the UOC-MP in different regions of Ukraine. On December 1, Zelensky announced that the National Security and Defense Council was asking Verkhovna Rada to ban the work of the UOC-MP in Ukraine. He noted that the government will submit a relevant bill to the Parliament..

Subsequently, Vladimir Zelensky imposed sanctions against a number of hierarchs of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

In particular, the decree on restriction concerned eight people.

On March 10, the leadership of the National Reserve " Later, he noted that the monks would be able to stay in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, but under certain conditions.

Read more about the situation around the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in the article by Ekaterina Shchetkina “With cassocks - on the way out! Will the Ukrainian authorities be able to liberate the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra from the UOC-MP? » for ZN. U.A..