Persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church: Documentation and Evidence

Videos, articles, and documents that demonstrate the continual persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

5/27/20252 min read

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has suffered years of violence and threats from radical groups, ranging from far-right and neo-Nazi organizations like Right Sector and Azov Battalion, and persecution by Ukrainian politicians and media outlets. The Ukrainian media has continuously circulated lies about the UOC, with many of these lies repeated by secular media outlets in Europe and North America in lockstep. Several years ago, the Patriarch of Constantinople granted autocephaly to two Ukrainian “Orthodox” groups. The Patraiche of Constantinople “ceded” the canonical jurisdiction to the Moscow Patriarch in the 17th century. Russia has the largest population of Orthodox Christians (over 100 million), with Ethiopia and Ukraine having the second and third largest populations with over 35 million Orthodox Christians each. The Moscow Patraiche’s canonical jurisdiction, therefore, encompasses the majority of all Orthodox Christians globally:

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/11/08/orthodox-christianitys-geographic-center-remains-in-central-and-eastern-europe/

That the UOC does not have a connection to the time of Vladimir the Great

That the UOC spreads Russian narratives:

Why the Ukrainian Church is Being Persecuted: Metropolitan Onuphry Gives the Answer:

Showdown at Lavra: why supporters of Epifaniy do not need the shrine:

Provocations of radicals at the Lavra:

Chronicles of Ivano-Frankivsk massacre: does anyone else want to join the OCU:

Zelenskyy did not deign to meet with UOC Synodals: What happens to the Church:

Back in the USSR: The Church is again expelled from the Lavra:

There have been attempts for years to displace the UOC from the Pchaev Lavra. Back on May 25, 2016 “Father Superior of the Pochaev Lavra of Holy Assumption Metropolitan Vladimir (Moroz) commented in his interview on the recent claim of Ternopol Regional Council to confiscate the Pochaev Lavra from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and turn the monastery into the state conservation area. It is reported by the UOJ correspondent.”

Svoboda members threaten deputies with reprisals for allocation of land to Pochaev Lavra (2018):

Ecumenicism, Paganism, the OCU, and Uniates

“Is Ukraine transferred to a new “spiritual reality? The OCU and the UGCC are simultaneously switching to a new calendar. Everything says that the next stage is their unification as constituent parts of Rome and Phanar. Maybe the authorities are repressing the UOC not at all because of its "relation" with Moscow but in order to force it to join this new union?”