The Primate of the UOC-MP Metropolitan Onufry dismissed Metropolitan Anthony of Khmelnitsky and Starokonstantinovsky from the administration of the Khmelnitsky diocese and sent him to rest, the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate reported. It was Metropolitan Anthony who handed over the keys to the Holy Intercession Cathedral to the local community after the priests beat a Ukrainian military man in the church.

At the same time, the UOC-MP claims that Metropolitan Anthony himself filed a letter of resignation and only after that the Synod made the appropriate decision. At the same time, the Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate itself held online.

“In response to the report, the Holy Synod released His Grace Metropolitan Anthony of Khmelnitsky and Starokonstantinovsky from the administration of the Khmelnitsky diocese and sent him to rest,” the UOC-MP noted..

The Moscow Patriarchate appointed Archbishop Viktor Baryshevsky as the new head of the Khmelnytsky diocese. The latter used to be a vicar of the Kyiv Metropolis.

It should be noted that on March 3, the Holy Intercession Cathedral in Khmelnytsky transferred to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. This decision was made by the general meeting on the day of the beating by the so-called priests of the Ukrainian military.

“Congratulations to the Khmelnytsky region and Khmelnytsky residents on the adoption of a historic decision on the transfer of the Holy Intercession Cathedral to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The Church in Ukraine must be Ukrainian. Service in the church should be conducted in Ukrainian throughout the country,"

As noted by the editor-in-chief LB. ua Sonya Koshkina, it was the dismissed Metropolitan Anthony, who repented for his subordinates who beat the military, handed over the keys to the community to the community. According to her, the metropolitan wants to go to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

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Recall that on April 2, in Khmelnytsky, priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate beat up a military man, Artur Ananiev, who, from the beginning of a full-scale invasion, volunteered for the front as part of the 19th rifle battalion. Representatives of the UOC-MP together with several parishioners held Ananiev, pressed the military man to the ground and broke his nose.

After that, they called the police, who took the military himself to the department.. He was detained under article 173 of the Code of Administrative Offenses "

After that, the mayor of Khmelnitsky, Alexander Simchishin, advocated the termination of the use of all land plots of the UOC-MP in the city. He stated that those who beat the military Artur Ananiev in the Holy Intercession Cathedral of the UOC-MP should be prosecuted, and the patrol officers who drew up a protocol against the military should be fired..