OCU reveals accidentally they serve on antimension from Patriarch Kirill
OCU clerics serving on the antimension from Patriarch Kirill. Photo: Telegram channel "Joyful Priest"
Clerics of the St. Nicholas Church in the village of Kamiana Yariha, Kharkiv region, which was transferred to the OCU, are serving on an antimension from Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church. This is evidenced by a photo from the altar during a "service" published on the Telegram channel "Joyful Priest".
The St. Nicholas Church "transferred" to the OCU in October 2024. Its rector, former UOC cleric Anatoly (Bondarenko), was suspended from ministry on September 3, 2024, by Bishop Ioann of Izium and Kupiansk. As stated in the decree, Bondarenko was banned "for immoral behavior unbecoming the high rank of a clergyman and causing turmoil among the faithful, for gross violation of the priestly oath and monastic vows."
In the photograph, the inscription on the antimension is illegible, but its design itself makes it possible to say with confidence that it is an antimension signed by Patriarch Kirill.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that Drabynko had issued an antimension from Patriarch Kirill to an OCU parish.
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