UOC at a press conference in the Lavra announced the upcoming Synod on March 20

The rector of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel, the head of the UOC, Metropolitan Anthony, and the head of the Synodal Information and Education Department of the UOC, Metropolitan Kliment, held a press conference, during which they announced that on March 20, the UOC will hold a Synod, at which they will decide how the Church will act in response to the order of the authorities to leave the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra until March 29. This is reported by the Telegram channel Politics of the country.

“We do not know what will happen in the Lavra on March 29, but we know the mood of our believers who will defend their shrines. We are told that people who are hostile against us, people who are fighting at the front, can come here. Among those who fight at the front, there are many who are believers of the UOC, and I would not want the state to bring the situation to the point that here, on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, on opposite sides of the confrontation, brothers will meet, who now protect our country. We do not stop believing that our government will not allow this confrontation,” said Metropolitan Anthony.

Also, representatives of the UOC said that they had not seen documents with the results of the commission that worked on the territory of the Lavra. Of the members of the commission, no one contacted or communicated with representatives of the Lavra.

The rector of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel, when asked what the monks would do on March 29 if they began to be evicted, answered as follows: “We will pray. What can I do against the government? We are people without weapons. We trust in the Lord. As the Lord wills, so shall it be.»