According to the decree of Metropolitan Anthony of Boryspil and Brovary dated May 11, 2021, Priest Yevgeny Zotov was relieved of his post as rector of the parish in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God of Farbovanoe village, Yagotynsky district, Kiev region, and from the position of rector (concurrently) of the parish in honor of the holy apostles Peter and Paul of Bogdanovka village, Yagotynsky district, Kiev region.

By the following decree, the ruling bishop for violation of the 10th, 11th and 39th canons of the Holy Apostles, the 2nd canon of the Council of Antioch, for evading schism and gross violation of the oath of a priest, banned the priest from serving without the right to take the Holy Mysteries of Christ. This was reported by the Information and Education Department of the UOC.

According to preliminary information, priest Yevgeny Zotov, against the wishes of the majority of parishioners, fraudulently, having formed a new religious dozen out of non-church citizens, tried to initiate the transfer of the religious community in honor of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the village of Farbovanoe to the subordination of the OCU.

Members of the religious community with. Farbovanoe held their Parafial meetings, at which they decided not to change their confessional affiliation and remain in the bosom of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the omophorion of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphrius of Kiev and All Ukraine. That is, the transition of a religious community in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos with. Farbovannye Ukrainian Orthodox Church to the “OCU” did not happen.

Moreover, the parishioners condemned the actions of Father Eugene and asked the ruling bishop to appoint a new abbot.