Dumenko сlaims "2,000 Moscow Patriarchate parishes" transferred to OCU

Serhiy Dumenko. Photo: Suspilne

The head of the OCU, Serhiy Dumenko, in an interview with the host of Suspilne, condemned the resistance of UOC believers during the transfers of their churches and assured that in the OCU they want these transitions to take place “with love.”

Answering a journalist’s question about scandals around transfers, where “someone roughed someone up a little,” Dumenko insisted that all this is the work of the enemy, who “is trying to discredit this cause.”

“They resist, they stage provocations so that later these pictures can be shown, especially at the international level,” said Serhiy Petrovych.

According to him, the OCU longs “for this process to be calm, peaceful, with love, because we are building our Church on the foundations of love.”

Why OCU representatives brutally beat UOC clergy during “transfers,” Dumenko did not specify. He assured that already “more than 2,000 parishes from the Moscow Patriarchate” have joined the OCU.

Dumenko also emphasized that “onion-shaped” domes in Orthodox architecture, as well as churches dedicated to the Kazan Icon or Alexander Nevsky, are “an ideology that was imposed on us for centuries.” He promised that in the OCU they will build exclusively churches “in our Ukrainian Baroque style.”

Earlier, the UOJ reported that a case was opened against Epifaniy Dumenko for slander against a UOC hierarch.

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