In an interview with Archpriest Nikolai Danilevich for the Pravoslavny Vestnik YouTube channel, Archbishop Viktor of Khmelnytsky and Starokonstantinov voiced his vision of the present and future of the Khmelnytsky diocese and the entire Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

As the archbishop noted, at present 64 churches have been seized in the Khmelnytsky diocese of the UOC. But in many villages, parish life is beginning to revive “not because someone wants it, but because people who have had their church taken away by force want to stay in the UOC and continue their prayer life.”

“Therefore, these people organize themselves, find premises, we help them,” the bishop added.

The bishop also notes the importance of close contact with people in dioceses and parishes.

“We need to communicate closely with people. All the barriers that have formed for various reasons need to be broken. The body of Christ is both believers, and a priest, and a bishop. We are all children of the Church of Christ, only we have different obedience in the Church,” he noted archbishop.

When asked about the vision of the development of the dioceses, Bishop Viktor replied that “if we are as a single organism, everyone will know their right place and everyone will do everything that depends on him in this place, relying on the will of God, then all questions about the future development and missions will decide themselves.”