Metropolitan of Bulgarian Church condemns desecration of Lavra relics
Metropolitan Gabriel of Lovech. Photo: Facebook page of the Diocese of Lovech
On 4 April 2025, Metropolitan Gabriel of Lovech of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church read out a letter from the Bulgarian clergy addressed to Metropolitan Theodosiy of Cherkasy at a priests' conference in the city of Troyan, reports the UOJ website in Bulgaria.
The letter, accepted by the clergy of the Troyan district, expressed deep sympathy over the barbaric seizure of St. Archangel Michael's Cathedral. The letter contains a call for punishment of the guilty and the return of the church to its rightful owners – the Cherkasy Eparchy led by Metropolitan Theodosiy.
The participants of the conference also prayed to God and the Kyiv-Pechersk saints to prevent further desecration of their holy relics and for the swift return of these sanctities to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the omophorion of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and All Ukraine.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that a theologian from Greece appealed to the heads of the Churches over the sacrilege in the Lavra.
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