In Khodosivka, Drabinko's "monks" gather residents for a raider attack
On September 4, 2022, in Khodosivka, Kyiv region, two “monks” of the OCU organized gatherings of local residents near the Paraskeva Pyatnytsia church to transfer the UOC community to the OCU. Archpriest Nikolai Komarnitsky, rector of the temple, told the UOJ about this. According to him, ex-Metropolitan Alexander (Drabinko) oversees the "monks".
The rector said that the group of people numbered about 300 persons. There were no parishioners of the St. Paraskeva church among them at all, and a significant part of them came from other villages. When the priest approached the audience and tried to explain that they had no authority to transfer the church community to another jurisdiction, he heard only insults and hateful remarks.
The real church community at that time was offering prayers and serving akathists near their church. On July 31, 2022, the UOC community at a meeting voted for loyalty to the UOC and His Beatitude Onuphry. The minutes of the meeting were signed then by 60 parishioners.
As previously reported by the UOJ, supporters of the OCU shell a UOC church in Zazymya.
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