“According to journalists, Archbishop Isaakiy left at 23:10 on January 7 in a Toyota car, which he usually uses in Kyiv. He left for Moldova”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to journalists, Archbishop Isaakiy left at 23:10 on January 7 in a Toyota car, which he usually uses in Kyiv. He left for Moldova through the Mohyliv-Podilskyi-Otach checkpoint.
Sources of journalists reported that the rector of the temple of the Moscow Patriarchate has been in the territory of Moldova for almost a week.
Isaakii Vorzelsky did not answer calls and messages for five days. According to data from open sources, Isaakiy Vorzelsky is 61 years old.
The head of the Synodal Information and Educational Department of the UOC MP, Metropolitan Kliment, told reporters that he had no information about Vorzelskyi’s departure.
On January 6, the “Investigation.Info” project published an investigation into the fact that an underground UOC (MP) school operates in Kyiv, where they teach according to Soviet textbooks, show Russian films and teach Russian songs.
Journalists point out that the school works at the monastery of the UOC (MP) “Holosiivska hermitage”. The director calls the institution a “family club”, however, it works according to the schedule like a regular school.
According to the investigation, schoolchildren’s documents are kept in licensed Ukrainian schools for formality, although the children do not study there. In total, more than 60 children from the 1st to the 9th grade study at this school.
After that, the Ministry of Education and the Security Service of Ukraine informed about the inspection.
Subsequently, in a comment to Suspilno, Klyment said that the school reported by “Slidstvo.Info” was not created by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and was not officially registered, as well as that he did not know which institution at the monastery was referred to in the investigators’ material.
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In May of last year, Ukraine began checking the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (together with the Moscow Patriarchate) for ties with Russia. Then the nine-month term, which was set aside by the law for the church to prove the absence of ties with Russia, expired.
Currently, the court is considering the case on the termination of the activities of the Kyiv Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).
In 2023, a religious examination of the statute of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) showed the presence of a church-canonical connection with the Russian Orthodox Church, the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience reported. The service says that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church continues to be subordinate to the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (MP) called this religious examination “illegal and conducted in violation of the law and beyond the scope of its research.”