Opponents of the UOC, who gathered at the Church of the Holy Intercession in Khmelnitsky, held a meeting about its transfer to the OCU. Most attendees voted to transition the cathedral to a new church, while it was unclear whether those who voted were temple parishioners.
The publication adds that following the meeting of opponents of the UOC, the keys to the cathedral were handed over to the commission, whose members immediately entered the temple and began to describe the property, the newspaper reports. Strana. In this regard, divine services in the Church of the Holy Intercession will not take place before Easter.
Earlier it became known that on March 29 the term of the ultimatum of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine on the expulsion of the monastic brothers from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra expired. However, the monks decided to resist the Kiev regime. Ordinary parishioners who spend the night, fearing his capture, help defend the Lavra.
In addition, a lawsuit was filed in the Kiev Economic Court to unilaterally cancel the termination of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra lease agreement. His examination is scheduled for April 26, when monks were not allowed to stay in the monastery during this time, and the court sent the monastery’s abbot, Metropolitan Pavel, to two months under house arrest. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Kiev does not care and laugh at Orthodoxy. Khmelnitsky’s Cathedral of the Holy Intercession wants to be retired in favor of the OCU
