His Grace Bishop Theophylact of Mytischi of the Russian Orthodox Church reposed in the Lord today at the age of 73. He served the Church in various capacities, including 21 years as a hierarch.
The Diocese and Chernivtsi and Bukovina wrote about the attack in real-time on its Telegram channel, reporting that the schismatic raiders spilled innocent blood, tore down the gate to the church, and used a circular saw to cut down the doors of the church.
WCC General Secretary Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay issued a statement last week decrying the state’s actions against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which “raise genuine questions with regard to respect for freedom of religion or belief.”
In fact, on the shoulders of the monks of the monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the head of the OCU wants to go to the Lavra and take advantage of their many years of work, assigning them to his structure.
Yesterday, the defrocked clerics of Lithuania who have gathered under the omophorion of the Patriarch of Constantinople held their first public Liturgy.