Two religious communities in the Zhytomyr region decided to leave the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
In the Zhytomyr region, the religious communities of the villages of Dryglov and Bolshiye Lesovtsy, which used to belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarch, were handed over to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. This was announced by the head of the Zhytomyr-Ovruch diocese of the OCU, Bishop Paisiy of Zhytomyr and Ovruch on Facebook.
“On April 10, another religious community of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Svyato-Pokrovskaya village of Dryglov, Zhytomyr region, joined the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the Zhytomyr region,” he wrote, noting that the community moved to the OCU without rector .
In addition, on April 11, the Holy Trinity religious community of the UOC-MP in the village of Bolshiye Lesovtsy, Zhytomyr region, without a rector, joined the OCU.
Earlier it was reported that in Khmelnytsky the community voted for the transfer to the OCU of St. George Church of UOC-MP.
In total, since the beginning of the mass war, 277 UOC-MP religious communities have joined the OCU.
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Source: korrespondent
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