Drabinko: Joining and decommunization of the UOC is one of the most important tasks in the Kyiv region

On June 10, Ukrinform hosted an open discussion on the topic “Religious Organizations during the War: Examples of Cohesion and Risks to Sustainability” with the participation of authorized representatives of the Kyiv Regional Council of Churches and Religious Organizations. This was reported by the website of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience.

One of the participants in the discussion, «Metropolitan» Alexander Drabinko, said that now in the Kiev region «religious life is being restored — many believers come to confession, in general, churches are filled with people.»

He also stated that «the accession and decommunization of the Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is one of the most important tasks in the Kiev region.»

“Having a rigid power vertical, the Moscow Patriarchate keeps the clergy from following at the request of believers. Since most communities expressing their desire to join the Local Orthodox Church are restrained by MP priests, or priests refuse to follow their believers, a certain discomfort is created both in administrations and in general in our dioceses, which are on the territory of the region. Because people are used to the priest. He takes a destructive position with his behavior,» he stressed.