OCU “Bishop” Viktor Bed gave an interview to zn.ua, in which he stated that “God is for vaccination.”

“There is no concept in Scripture that would be interpreted as saying that God is against vaccination. God created everything on earth, including man. We, the people, are his children. Therefore, as a loving father, he wants us to live and not die […] Therefore, it would be more correct to say that God is for vaccination,” the “hierarch” said.

Bed also said that “in the administration of the Mukachevo-Carpathian diocese, the Augustin Voloshin Carpathian University and the Uzhgorod Ukrainian Theological Academy, almost everyone was vaccinated. Of course, voluntarily. Among the first was myself. The war put us a little behind schedule. But we have already begun to communicate the importance of a booster dose for COVID-19. The first employees have already received a booster vaccine. I’m also going in a few days. We talk about our own vaccination in churches and social networks. Sometimes we joke that people are watching and waiting: if in a week or two the vaccinated survive, then they can be vaccinated.”