Clergy of Chernigov Eparchy express support for the UOC Primate
Clerics of Chernigov eparchy
The clergy of the Chernigov eparchy expressed their support for the Primate of the UOC.
According to the website of the eparchy, the meetings, chaired by Metropolitan Ambrosiy of Chernigov and Novograd-Seversky, have already taken place in Gorodniansk, Mensk, Snovsk, Koriukovka, Kulikovka, Chernigov, Kozelets and Oster deaneries.
The priests unanimously testified to their loyalty to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, to its Primate, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy, and spoke in favor of preserving the existing status of the UOC.
Earlier, the allegiance to His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy was announced in Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Voznesensk, Zhitomir, Kharkov, and other eparchies of the UOC.
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