The Lviv City Council provided the Orthodox Church of Ukraine with a plot of land for the construction of a cathedral, on which the Volodymyr Temple of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is located. The resolution of the City Council of March 9, 2023 was supported by 52 deputies, Pravlife writes.

“The session decided to grant the RO “The Religious Community of the Lviv-Sokal Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Orthodox Church of Ukraine) of the Parish of the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in the Sikhovsky District of Lviv” permission to develop a land management project for the allotment of a land plot on ave. Chervonoy Kalina, 89,” the statement said.

According to the deputy Evgeny Boyko, the decision made by the city council will make it possible to “finally complete the history of Russian propaganda in Lviv.”

Recall that the temple in the name of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir in the Sykhiv microdistrict of Lviv was repeatedly attacked by vandals and opponents of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. In 2018 and 2022, he suffered as a result of arson, the perpetrators of the crimes were not found.

Volodymyr’s Church is called “squatter”, but according to the information of the Lviv diocese of the UOC, the liturgical building was erected in accordance with the decision of the executive committee of the Lviv City Council (No. 333 of 08/29/1991) and the resolution of the Lviv City Council (No. The right to locate the Volodymyr’s Church on the land plot was confirmed by the decisions of the Lviv Administrative Court of Appeal, the Economic Court of the Lviv Region and the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine. The religious community of the UOC of the Sykhiv region in the city of Lviv was registered in 1991, operates in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine and is the successor of the previous legal entity – the religious community of the UOC of the city of Lviv Sykhiv residential area.