More than 20 clergymen of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) have Russian passports, among them Metropolitan Onufry (Orest Berezovsky), according to an investigation by Ukrainska Pravda.

Ukrainian priests with Russian passports found:.

Onufry received his valid Russian passport in Moscow on March 20, 2002, according to an extract from the Rospassport system.. On June 23, 2003, he also issued a passport for a citizen of the Russian Federation. And these are not his first Russian documents.. Prior to that, he made a Russian passport in 1998: this means that he had a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation before 2002;

the bishop of the UOC-MP and the abbot of the tithe monastery Gideon (Yuri Kharon) received a Russian passport in Moscow in 2019, and in 2020 - two international passports of a citizen of the Russian Federation. In January 2023, Gideon served in Russian Kazan. His prayer contained words in support of the Russian troops and the Russian attack on Ukraine.

former Metropolitan of Izyum and Kupyansky Elisha (Oleg Ivanov) received a Russian passport in December 2022. Prior to that, after the occupation of Izyum, he continued to pray for Patriarch Kirill and received representatives of the occupation administration of the Kharkiv region in his temple. After the de-occupation of Izyum, Ivanov fled to Belgorod, where he received a Russian document.;

Metropolitan of Tulchinsky and Bratslavsky Ionofan (Anatoly Yeletsky);

vicar of the Tulchinsk diocese, Bishop of Ladyzhinsky Sergiy (Sergey Anitsoy);

Vicar of the Kyiv diocese, Archbishop Panteleimon (Viktor Bashchuk);

Governor of the Chernivtsi-Bukovina diocese, Metropolitan Meletiy (Valentin Egorenko);

Metropolitan Mark (Nikolai Petrovtsiy), head of the Khust diocese;

Metropolitan Irenaeus (Ivan Sredniy), head of the Dnepropetrovsk diocese.

The rest of the names are expected to be published in the near future..

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