Regional Administration head: No UOC communities are left in Lviv Region

Head of the Lviv Regional Administration, Maksym Kozytskyi. Photo: Kozytskyi's Facebook

Lviv Region has become the first in Ukraine with no registered religious communities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). This was announced on November 29 by the head of the Lviv RMA, Maksym Kozytskyi, on his Facebook page.

He called this day "historic," believing that "the region has been cleansed of religious communities subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate."

Kozytskyi shared that in 2014, there were 66 UOC religious communities in the Lviv Region, which had decreased to 54 by February 24, 2022. He claimed that during the full-scale invasion, "27 communities joined the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), and another 27 ceased their activities under their own leadership."

As UOJ previously reported, the Lviv Eparchy of the UOC refuted claims by the RMA that it had been voluntarily dissolved.

Meanwhile, calls have circulated online urging attention to the situation regarding the eradication of the UOC in Lviv Region.

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