3/22/2021
Metropolitan Kliment (Vecherya)
For several years now the new statutes of our parishes, dioceses, monasteries and educational institutions haven’t been registered. New parishes, monasteries and convents are being set up in the country, but no one is registering them—they are outside the legal framework.
Despite the change of government in Ukraine in the spring of 2019, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (the UOC-MP) continues to feel pressure from the central authorities, and remains a target of propaganda attacks.
Metropolitan Kliment of Nezhin and Priluky, Head of the Synodal Department on Information and Education of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church spoke about the experiences of his Local Church in the winter of 2021.
