Schemes journalist Maxim Savchuk spoke with the acting governor of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra about the changes after joining the WTO.
.in_text_content_22 { width: 300px; height: 600px; } @media(min-width: 600px) { .in_text_content_22 { width: 580px; height: 400px; } }
Archimandrite Avraamy said that divine services began to be held in the shrine in Ukrainian, which was previously prohibited, as well as prayers for the Ukrainian military, which the UOC (MP) did not conduct here. Abraham became a priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in March 2023.
Separately, the journalists visited a closed facility on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra – the former residence of the head of the UOC (MP) Metropolitan Onufry, where journalists were not allowed before.
This is a three-story building with a sauna on the territory of the reserve in the Lower Lavra. There, in addition to private chambers, there are rooms where the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate used to take place and, in particular, prayers were read for Russian prisoners of war.
Freeing the premises, representatives of the UOC (MP) removed all the furniture, icons from the residence and removed the lighting.
There is also a refectory where ceremonial events were held.
Of course, only the spiritual highest elite were here, and from the laity, again, not mortal people. These were representatives of such a higher elite who were philanthropists of the UOC-MP, who supported this ideology of the “Russian world” in various ways, and here they celebrated some kind of victory in that they managed to once again deceive the Ukrainians, – said the acting governor of Kiev. -Pechersk Lavra Archimandrite Abraham.
As it turned out, the personal confessor of Putin’s godfather Viktor Medvedchuk and his wife Oksana Marchenko continues to live in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra as a monk of the UOC-MP.
Source: Racurs
I am David Wyatt, a professional writer and journalist for Buna Times. I specialize in the world section of news coverage, where I bring to light stories and issues that affect us globally. As a graduate of Journalism, I have always had the passion to spread knowledge through writing.