Services in Ukrainian began at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Cherkassy. The Ukrainian flag was also raised there.
After the call of the mayor Anatoly Bondarenko for the townspeople to come under the walls of the temple and express their opinion about the existence of a Moscow church in the city, people began to converge on the cathedral.
And in the end, the city community entered the cathedral, and Metropolitan Theodosius (suspected of inciting interreligious hatred) and other representatives of the “UOC MP” left the territory of the temple.
At 12 o’clock the mayor Bondarenko and deputies of the City Council arrived and witnessed the transfer of St. Michael’s Cathedral to the VCU.
After this, a prayer was heard in Ukrainian for the first time in the temple.
Nothing inside the cathedral itself was damaged. Now the police are working on the spot, establishing the circumstances within the framework of open proceedings, said Zoya Vovk, a police representative in the Cherkasy region. The events are classified as hooliganism. Doctors are also examining several people,
As Metropolitan John of Cherkassy and Chigirin told the Public, the transition of the community to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine took place on June 12, 2024 and currently the temple belongs to the VCU. The UOC is not registered at this address and has lost its property rights.
Earlier, “Rakurs” wrote that in Cherkassy, near St. Michael’s Cathedral, a fight broke out between representatives of the OCU and believers of the UOC-MP.
Military chaplain Vladimir Pedko said that the cathedral is being transferred to the WTO and will be a garrison. There was no public vote for such a decision, says Public. In the morning, believers and Metropolitan Theodosius of the UOC-MP came to the temple, and subsequently a fight broke out.
Then the believers of the UOC-MP and the metropolitan locked themselves in the church and did not let anyone in.
Source: Racurs
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