Met. Alexander (Drabinko): It is necessary to create asset register of UOC
Metropolitan Alexander (Drabinko) of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky and Vishnevoe
There is a need for the asset register of the UOC, said Metropolitan Alexander (Drabinko) of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky and Vishnevoe on the ZIK TV channel on September 24, commenting on the recent decision of the Ministry of Culture to create a commission determining the value of UOC communities’ assets.
"There should be a register, and it should have been created not now but earlier," the hierarch said. "Since it must be known what is in state ownership and what is in communal ownership, that is owned by monasteries or religious communities, where the land and the structures built on it are allocated. Such a register should have been created long ago."
Also, answering the host’s question, what is his attitude to seizures of UOC churches, Metropolitan Alexander noted that calls legal actions church grabbing, the question should be addressed personally to them.
Earlier, clerics of the UOC in the Sumy have region received letters from the National Preserve "Glukhov" about the creation of an asset valuation commission. The letters were sent in accordance with the directive of the Ministry of Culture. The Legal Department of the UOC finds the requirements of the Ministry of Culture unlawful.
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