Ukraine, December 26, 2024
Photo: interfax.com.ua
More than 200 parishes “transferred” from the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine to the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” in 2024.
In a response to Interfax-Ukraine’s request for data, the State Ethnopolitics Service of Ukraine reported that 218 parishes made the move.
While a handful of clerics and parishes may have transitioned voluntarily, it is well known that the vast majority of the “transfers” were in fact accomplished through violent physical seizures, falsified parish registration documents, or a combination thereof.
The October attack on the Archangel Michael Cathedral in Cherkasy was among the most violent seizures. The representatives of the graceless OCU sprayed tear gas and fired guns in the church, and brutally attacked His Eminence Metropolitan Theodosy of Cherkasy and others. They also plundered church valuables.
Meanwhile, Epiphany Dumenko and other representatives of the graceless OCU continue to blatantly lie in public statements, claiming there is no persecution against the canonical Church.
The State Ethnopolitics Service reported the following numbers for parish “transfers” since the creation of the OCU:
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2018: 2 communities
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2019: 319 communities
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2020: 30 communities
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2021: 25 communities
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2022: 496 communities
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2023: 471 communities
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2024: 218 communities (as of December 23)
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