A new UOC community starts operating in Berlin
A Christmas service in the St Michael community of the UOC in Berlin. Photo: facebook.com/UkrainianChurchBerlin
On January 7, 2024, the Feast of our Lord’s Nativity, there was a liturgy in the new St Michael community of the UOC set up in Berlin, reports the press service of the UOC Department for External Church Relations.
Divine services in the community will be held at the address: 15 Michaelkirchplatz.
Archpriest Demetrius Dziadevich became the rector of the community, you can contact him by phone: +49 1512 8404606; +380 95 305 6810.
In Berlin, there is also the All Saints community of the UOC opened in August 2022.
As reported, new UOC communities have appeared in Hungary and Germany.
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