The rite was performed personally by Onuphrius.
Former deputy from the Party of Regions, who Relatively recently, Mikhail Dobkin was ordained a deacon of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Metropolitan of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine Onufriy, who headed the service in the Holy Annunciation Cathedral in Kharkiv in the Annunciation.
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Recall that Vladimir Putin's trusted ally, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill refused to condemn the Kremlin's decision to invade Ukraine and called Russia's opponents in Ukraine an “evil force.” In a Sunday sermon before Lent, he said gay parades in the West were one of the causes of the war in Ukraine.
Later, a number of Christian churches distanced themselves from Russian Orthodoxy. I and Patriarch Kirill, and some parishes of the UOC-MP in Ukraine began to come under the jurisdiction of the UOC-MP
As for the head of the UOC-MP Metropolitan Onufriy, he War Day called on the aggressor President Vladimir Putin to immediately end the “fratricidal war” and expressed support for Ukrainian troops. However, there were no statements from him about a possible break with the ROC, which approves of the brutal war in Ukraine.
