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The community of the Church of St. John in the Cherkasy region confirmed its loyalty to the UOC

On July 31, 2022, during the service, representatives of the OCU staged a provocation in the church in honor of John the Baptist in the village of Khutor. This was reported by the press service of the Cherkasy diocese.

The believers of the UOC did not succumb to the provocation, so the supporters of the OCU announced in the rural House of Culture an illegal meeting of the territorial community (which has no legal force in this matter), at which they planned to transfer the religious community of the church in honor of John the Baptist of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to the structure of Dumenko.

On August 3, 2022, a parish meeting of the religious community in honor of John the Baptist was held in the St. John’s Church.

At the meeting, the parishioners unanimously expressed their sincere and unconditional desire not to change jurisdiction and remain faithful to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the omophorion of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv and All Ukraine, and also to reject any raider encroachment of outsiders on the property of the parish.

Parishioners of the church in honor of John the Baptist with. The farmsteads of the Cherkasy diocese of the UOC unanimously confirmed their desire to be in the canonical Church, subordinate to the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kyiv and all Ukraine, and in canonical and organizational subordination to the Governor of the Cherkasy diocese, Metropolitan Theodosius of Cherkasy and Kanev, as part of the Cherkasy diocese of the UOC,” commented on the will of the religious community Archpriest Sergiy Chumak, Dean of the Cherkassy District, who, with the blessing of Metropolitan Theodosius, was present at the meeting.

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