In the Lviv region, the activities of the canonical UOC were banned

Candles in the temple. Archive photoMOSCOW, May 27. The authorities of the Lviv region have banned the activities of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, according to the website of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR) of the Moscow Patriarchate on Friday. on the ban on the activities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church,» the message says.The authorities of the Lviv region took away the temple from the community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church According to local officials, the reason for the ban was an incident that happened on May 22, when during the service, unknown people poured greenery over Archpriest Volodymyr Mandziuk. Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the country, according to the synodal department. The priest of the city of Stryi in the Lviv region of Ukraine was doused with brilliant green during the liturgy, the information and educational department of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate reported on May 23, citing a message from his daughter on the social network.Kyiv is preparing provocations to discredit the UOC, the Ministry of Defense said Recently, attacks on churches, clergy and believers of the canonical UOC by nationalists have become more frequent in Ukraine. In addition, in March, a bill was submitted to the Rada to ban the activities of the UOC, seize its real estate and other property. To this, the Russian Orthodox Church stated that the adoption of bills aimed at eliminating the UOC would aggravate the crisis and provoke a new round of civil confrontation. The structure called the «Orthodox Church of Ukraine» (OCU) was formed from schismatics, and therefore is not a church in the canonical understanding. It was formed at the initiative of the ex-president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in opposition to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of the Moscow Patriarchate at the end of 2018 at the Unification Cathedral in Kyiv, which was attended mainly by schismatics. And in January 2019, the Patriarchate of Constantinople granted the OCU a «tomos of autocephaly». However, the OCU is in fact subordinate to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and most of the 15 local Orthodox churches in the world do not recognize it as canonical. warrior