"Cheers cheers! We were not recognized as criminals!” What does the Volyn bishop of the UOC (MP) rejoice after meeting with the governor
The governor of the Rivne region noted that in the Sarny diocese of the UOC (Moscow Patriarchate) the clergy does not violate the state laws of Ukraine.
About this with joy reports website of the diocese, talking about the working meeting of Metropolitan Anatoly of Sarny and Polesie with the Chairman of the Rivne Regional State Administration Alexey Mulyarenko.
According to the diocese’s information resource, “Governor Alexey Vitalievich thanked Vladyka for the stable situation in the diocese, in which state laws are not violated by the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.”
In turn, “the bishop expressed joy at the achievements that are taking place in the Rivne region and testified that the communities of the UOC support their governor in the development of the Rivne region.”
As you know, Metropolitan Anatoly in 2014 signed a joint agreement with the Filaretites, “autocephalous” and Uniates memorandum on the “United Local Ukrainian Church”, in which (in order not to get up twice) the actions of the Russian Federation as an “aggressor state” were condemned.
A few days after Metropolitan Anatoly was summoned by the Primate of the UOC (MP), Metropolitan Onuphry, to Kyiv, he revoked your signature on the memorandum.
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