UOC KP asks court to ban transfer of St. Michael's Cathedral to OCU
Entrance to the District Administrative Court building. Photo: the District Court website
The District Administrative Court of Kiev received a petition from the Kiev Patriarchate of the UOC KP, in which the Kiev Patriarchate requests to ban the Kiev City State Administration and the Kiev City Council from transferring the St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Cathedral and the Church of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos (Pirogoshcha) to anyone for use, the court’s website said.
Also, the UOC KP demands to prohibit any actions that would be aimed at terminating the use of these buildings by the Kiev Patriarchate.
Another claim is a request to ban the registration in the Unified State Register or the re-registration of the “Kiev Patriarchate of the UOC KP”, the Holy Theodosius Stavropegic Monastery of Kiev (UOC KP), the Vydubichi Monastery of the Kiev Eparchy (UOC KP), the religious communities of the parish of St. Equal-to-Apostles Grand Prince Vladimir of the Kiev Eparchy (UOC KP) of the Shevchenko district of the city of Kiev.
On June 25, 2019, the "Patriarch of Kiev and All Rus-Ukraine" Filaret Denisenko announced that he had left the OCU and created the "Synod" of the UOC KP out of five "bishops".
After that, the Kiev Patriarchate filed a lawsuit to restore its registration.
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