Week-long defense of Orthodox cathedral against seizure by schismatics

Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Province, Ukraine, February 27, 2025

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The Orthodox flock of Chernivtsi have been defending their cathedral against seizure for more than a week now.

Although the faithful have Chernivtsi cathedral confirms loyalty to Orthodox Church in face of schismatics’ threatsIn the face of threats by the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” hundreds of Orthodox parishioners of the Holy Spirit Cathedral in the city of Chernivtsi voted to remain in the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the headship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine.

“>confirmed their loyalty to Christ in His holy Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, the radicals of the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” held their own illegitimate vote to force the Holy Spirit Cathedral and other Chernivtsi churches into their schism.

And having learned of plans to violently seize the physical church buildings, local Orthodox Christians gathered at the cathedral, the Church of St. Nicholas, and the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul on the night of Orthodox in western Ukraine spend night in church to prevent seizure by godless schismaticsThe faithful gathered in the Holy Spirit Cathedral, the Church of St. Nicholas, and the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, which the godless schismatics of the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” are intent on violently seizing.

“>February 19-20 to defend their holy sites.

Since then, they have maintained a round-the-clock watch for more than a week, prayerfully protecting their churches, reports Orthobuk.

Meanwhile, the three churches were re-registered with the authorities yesterday in the name of Yaroslav Bodoryak who is actually the “bishop” of the schismatic OCU in Chernivtsi, the canonical UOC’s Information-Education Department reports.

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