69-year-old rector of UOC cathedral of Uzhhorod served summons to the army

Archpriest Dimitriy Sydor. Photo: a video screenshot of the YouTube channel of the Holy Cross Cathedral in Uzhhorod

Archpriest Dimitriy Sydor, 69, rector of the Holy Cross Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Uzhhorod, received a summons to the army, according to which he must "immediately" report to the local military recruitment centre. He said this during a sermon published on the cathedral's YouTube channel.

The elderly priest showed the summons and noted with bewilderment that the military officer obliged him to report to the TCC "immediately": "What does the military officer want?” asks the priest. “If, for example, to deregister, you could have written that at a convenient time. But they wrote that it was necessary to report immediately.

As reported, Archpriest Dimitriy Sydor said that no one but the UOC offers peaceful religious coexistence in Ukraine.

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