UOC bishop: We came to OP to convey the position of our multi-million flock

Metropolitan Clement. Photo: screenshot from the Facebook page "Ukrainian Orthodox Church"

Members of the Holy Synod of the UOC came to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy to convey to him the position of millions of Ukrainians who are parishioners of the Church. This was told by Metropolitan Clement, whose appeal was published on Facebook by the press service of the UOC.

According to him, the meeting of the hierarchs of the UOC, headed by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry, with the President of Ukraine will be able to “stop the defamation of the UOC” by individual media and officials of the highest level.

Vladyka also noted that the Head of the Ukrainian State is not informed about the real activities of the UOC: “We are talking about the huge assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and volunteers, and actions to support the state.”

“We have come to convey to the President the position not only of the members of the Synod, but also of millions of believers of the UOC. In 1992, the bishops of the UOC already came to meet with the President. And this has borne fruit. <...> Believers of the UOC deserve to be heard and not treated as second-class people, so that there is no enmity in society. The authorities should hear the UOC, if only for the sake of the dead warrior heroes, parishioners of the UOC,” he said.

As the UOJ reported, members of the Synod of the UOC, headed by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry, arrived at the Office of the President to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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