Kuchma decides to give the church he built in Chaikyne to OCU
St Paraskeva’s Church in the village of Chaikyne. Photo: Suspilne
St Paraskeva’s Church in the village of Chaikyne, Chernihiv region, which was built by Ukraine's second President Leonid Kuchma, is planned to be "transferred" to the OCU. This was reported by Liudmyla Tkachenko, the head of the Novhorod-Siversky community, in an interview with Suspilne.
"Currently, there is a discussion about the Chaikyne church for it to be transferred to the OCU. In fact, it currently has the status of being ownerless, it has not been transferred to anyone. It was built by Leonid Danylovych Kuchma, the second President of Ukraine, in honour of his mother, Paraskeva," she said.
According to Liudmyla Tkachenko, the proposal to hand the church over to the OCU came from Leonid Kuchma himself.
"It was last summer (2024). He said that he wanted to leave a good memory of himself. And now we have already started the procedure to recognise it as ownerless, and then the community will make the decision about to whom it will be handed over," Tkachenko added.
As earlier reported by the UOJ, in Serbo-Slobidka, the OCU and local authorities seized a UOC church.
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