Due to religious confrontation in Kolomyia a UOC priest gets into hospital

As reported by the UOJ source, senior priest of the Assumption temple in Kolomyia Nikolay Smetaniuk was hospitalized into the cardiological department due to the conflict sparkled around the Annunciation church of the UOC.

Father Nikolay was visited by bishop of Baryshevka Victor (Kotsaba), vicar of Kiev Metropoly, head of the UOC Representative Office at European Organizations. Vladyka arrived in Kolomyia to support the UOC parishioners in defending their title to the temple.

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