Lviv Regional State Administration reports on complete liquidation of UOC in the region

The head of the Lviv regional administration, Maksym Kozytskyi, said that there are no more religious communities in the Lviv region that are part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Kozitsky called on other regions to follow the example of the Lviv region in this matter. He wrote about this on his Facebook page.

“Today is a historic day for the Lviv region – the region has been cleansed of religious communities that are subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate. Lviv region became the first in Ukraine where there is no longer a single registered religious community of the Russian Orthodox Church! Before Russia’s aggression against Ukraine in 2014, there were 66 religious communities of the Moscow Patriarchate in our region. As of February 24, 2022, there were 54 of these communities. During the full-scale invasion, 27 communities joined the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and another 27 ceased their activities on their own instructions,” – the head of the Lviv Regional State Administration wrote.

Earlier, the Lviv Regional Administration, with the support of the UGCC, the OCU, radical activists and local media, continues to harass the three remaining religious communities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the region. The Lviv Regional State Administration is looking for places where UOC believers gather, violating the right to private property and privacy of Ukrainian citizens. This time, Suspilne.Lviv published the personal data and addresses of residents of the Lviv region, whom the media suspect of organizing secret services in private homes.