Thousands process at Ukrainian cathedral targeted by schismatics

Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Province, Ukraine, March 11, 2025

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More than 4,000 faithful Ukrainian Orthodox Christians gathered at the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Chernivtsi this weekend for the feast of the Sunday of Orthodoxy, proclaiming the true faith’s triumph over Iconoclasm and all heresies.

The local Orthodox have been prayerfully defending their cathedral against seizure by the schismatics of the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” for several weeks now.

Following the Liturgy on Sunday, the faithful joyfully processed with icons. The video published by Orthobuk shows the procession being led by His Eminence Metropolitan Meletiy of Chernivtsi and other hierarchs:

Having learned of the “legal” re-registration of the Holy Spirit Cathedral and other churches in Chernivtsi and the schismatics’ plans to violently seize the church buildings, the faithful first gathered on the night of February 19–20 to prayerfully defend their churches, and their round-the-flock vigil has continued since.

Hundreds of cathedral parishioners proclaimed their loyalty to Christ in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine at a parish meeting on Sunday, February 16.

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3/11/2025

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