Without the priest’s consent: The Ukrainian Parliament calls for simplifying the transfer of canonical communities to schismatics

Kiev, June 30, 2022

Gathered to transfer canonical parish to the schismatic OCU in Khmelnitsky. Photo: vsim.ua Gathered to transfer canonical parish to the schismatic OCU in Khmelnitsky. Photo: vsim.ua     

The State Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on Humanitarian and Information Policy recommends adopting a law that makes it easier for a religious community to change its affiliation without the consent of the church’s head priest, reports The Union of Orthodox Journalists.

The State Committee of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) on Humanitarian and Information Policy made a proposal to Parliament to develop and adopt a law that would make it easier for a religious community to change its affiliation even if its head priest is against it. This is stated in the Recommendations of the Committee, published on June 28, 2022 on the website of the State Service of Ukraine on Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Speech.

“The Verkhovna Rada is invited to consider and adopt draft laws ... on the proper regulation and simplification of the procedure for changing the affiliation of a religious community in case of its leader’s disagreement with such a change, etc.,” the document says.

The Committee also recommends that the State Service of Ukraine on Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience “develop methodological recommendations for educational work aimed at clarifying the right of religious communities to change canonical subordination.”

Recall that in the village of Ozero in Volhynia, a parish community was “transferred” to the OCU while they and their priest were praying in their church. And in Khmelnytskyi, activists broke into the canonical UOC church and “transferred” it to the schismatic OCU, also without the participation of the church’s priest.

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6/30/2022

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