Donetsk Eparchy refutes media report about transfer of UOC community to OCU
The Miracle of the Archangel Michael Church in the village of Novomikhailovka. Photo: zanarod.org
On June 9, 2019, the press service of the Donetsk Eparchy published a statement refuting the transfer of the community of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael Church of vlg. Novomikhailovka of the Maryinka district, Donetsk region, to the OCU.
In one of its publications, the TSN news service, referring to the map of the OCU, which is being moderated in Google by the RISU resource, reported that the Novomikhailovka parish allegedly joined the OCU on May 8 this year.
The eparchy explained that the information is fake.
“What is the basis for the statement of the map editors and for what reason the TSN does not request the press service of the Donetsk Eparchy to confirm or deny it, preparing its material, remains unclear,” the press service says. “The report about the transfer of the community of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael Church of vlg. Novomikhailovka to the OCU is a fake.”
The Donetsk Eparchy emphasizes that “in the spring of 2019, all Orthodox communities of the above-mentioned eparchy held parish meetings at which they unanimously expressed their loyalty to the UOC and its Primate, His Beatitude Onuphry, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine. Not a single community of the Donetsk Eparchy has left the UOC and is not going to move anywhere.”
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