“Metropolitan” of the OCU (formerly the UOC-KP) Dymytriy Rudyuk in an interview with “Detector.UA” admitted that in his structure “in Galicia as a whole it is very difficult with monks”.

“In Galicia, except for the Manyavsky skete, it is very difficult with the monks. This is such a phenomenon of Orthodox monasticism in Galicia: everyone who wants to be monks goes to Kyiv, to Volyn. It is very difficult with this here, but we have one monastery in Lviv with one monk, one nunnery with a nun,” Rudyuk noted.

“I have great hope for the lent. I think that the monks will appear there, because there are already recommended ones,” he said.

According to Dymytriy Rudyuk, Orthodox monasticism refused to enter the OCU, because “monasticism is very conservative.” He cited the example of the Brest Church Union of 1596, when practically no monastery supported it.