The priests of the seized churches of the Rivne and Sarny eprchies received help from the Kiev Metropolitanate of the UOC. This was reported on the page “Rovno. Voice of the Church” on Facebook.
On March 8, with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Onuphry, a meeting of the priests of the Rivne and Sarnensk dioceses, suffered as a result of the church raiding of the OCU, took place with the , Metropolitan Borispilsky and Brovarskiy Anthony of the UOC.
Metropolitan Anthony thanked the priests for their steadfastness and wished them strength and patience to withstand the difficult struggle for the Orthodox faith.
Hierarch also conveyed the blessing of the Primate of the UOC to the fathers and presented church utensils: thrones, altars, and the Gospels.