“I have many ‘friends’! I will call them and they will come!” In the village Samiylivka, Kharkiv region, priest of the UOC-MP cannot accept that the community has moved to the OCU
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Collage by Olena Zelenina.
The community of the village of Samiylivka and the Blyzniukivska settlement community of the Lozova district moved to the OCU together with the rector of the Church of St. Prince Vladimir, Father Andriy Chelombitko, who had been ruling there for the past ten years.
In the vast majority of cases, the transition of a community from the UOC to the OCU is not without loud scandals, clashes, obstacles to worship, and fierce battles for the church, organized by representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate.
It was the same this time.
A priest of the UOC-MP arbitrarily broke the locks that had been replaced after the vote and seized the church in Samiylivka. How did the events develop further? Hromada found out.
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