The website of the Espresso TV channel has published an updated map of “transitions” of the UOC congregations to the OCU. It is reported that in 5 months the OCU managed to get about 200 more parishes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

“Most of all communities left the UOC-MP in Khmelnytchyna – 333. More than 200 parishes changed from the pro-Russian confession to the OCU in Kyiv and Volyn regions. More than a hundred communities changed confessional affiliation in Vinnytsia (192), Zhytomyr (159) and Rivne (104) regions”, – is indicated in the message.

“The least number of UOC-MP parishes remained in Galicia: 15 in Ivano-Frankivsk region, 37 in Lviv region and 74 in Ternopil region. In addition, these regions have the highest percentage of conversions from the Moscow Patriarchate to the OCU. In Ivano-Frankivsk region the Moscow Patriarchate lost 53% of its parishes, in Lviv region exactly half, and in Ternopil region the UOC-MP lost 36% of churches”, – summarize the authors of statistics.

We would like to remind you that we have repeatedly reported on how exactly the so-called transitions of religious communities from the UOC to the OCU take place. Most often, each such act is accompanied by typical signs of raiding.