In Gribovitsa Kiev Patriarchate tries to take away UOC priest’s house

On the eve of the feast of the Holy Trinity, the police are on duty again near the house of the head of the UOC community of Gribovitsa village. Law enforcers were called by Archpriest Igor Margita as supporters of the Kiev Patriarchate tried to bring into his house a member of the Bureau of Technical Inventory, reports a correspondent of the Union of Orthodox Journalists. 

Appealing to his legal right to inviolability of the home, the priest did not let strangers into the house, where he and his family are registered on suspicion that Gribovitsa village council simply uses the BTI for raiding transfer of the property to other individuals. 

Recall, last year the Kiev Patriarchate followed the same scheme when it privatized the UOC priest's house in the village of Ugrinov, despite the fact that the whole family was registered there and is now being evicted onto the street. 

Called law enforcement officers did not intervene in the conflict and advised those present to obtain the right to go into the house in the court. However, due to the presence of the police the confronting sides managed to avoid collisions. 

The house for the priest and his family was built by the UOC community of Gribovitsa. But after the seizure of the Holy Protection Church by the Kiev Patriarchate, the faithful and priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that refused to transfer to the UOC-KP have been under administrative and psychological pressure for about a year. The priest managed to formalize property rights of the UOC community only to the land under the church itself, and in the house his family is only registered.

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