Network reports about an operating eparchy of OCU in Russia
An OCU church in Noginsk near Moscow. Photo: Telegram channel "Bishop Lucifer"
An OCU structure – the Bogorodsk Eparchy headed by "Metropolitan of Bogorodsk" Adrian Starina – is operating in the Russian Federation, reports the Russian Telegram channel "Bishop Lucifer".
The resource published a screenshot of the RF service for the verification and analysis of Russian legal entities and entrepreneurs Rusprofile. On the portal, the Dumenko structure is listed as "Centralised religious organisation Bogorodsk Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church".
The channel also published the decree of Epifaniy Dumenko on the appointment of Starina as the head of the Bogorodsk Eparchy of the OCU.
The eparchy is registered in the city of Noginsk, Moscow region. "Metropolitan" Adrian (Valentin Egorovich Starina) is a citizen of the Russian Federation.
As earlier reported, the "hierarch" of the OCU Clement Kushch said why he needed a Russian passport.
Read also
Zelensky calls the meeting with Trump at the Pope's funeral "symbolic"
The President of Ukraine stated that he hopes for a "reliable peace".
His Beatitude: Faith in God helps a person overcome all difficulties
According to Metropolitan Onuphry, "when a person wisely builds their life on sacred divine laws, a living faith is born and established within them."
French court grants ROC the use of a church and cemetery in Nice
Previously, these objects were under the management of the cultural Orthodox association ACOR, which is not canonically subordinate to the Russian Orthodox Church.
In Wales, Islamic migrants burn a Christian church
Two teenagers who arrived in the country from Pakistan have been detained on suspicion of arson.
On Antipascha, His Beatitude celebrates the Liturgy at a church in Podil
After the Liturgy, the clergy performed the rite of glorification of the Feast of the Resurrection of Christ.
Zelensky tells the Vatican that imposing peace terms on Ukraine is unacceptable
The President met with Secretary of State Parolin at the Vatican.