Katerinopol residents resolve to drive “UAOC priests” away from town

On 7 February in Katerinopol Regional State Administration there was a вmeeting of parishioners who belong to different denominations with representatives of local and law enforcement authorities. According to the UOJ source, the meeting took place in view of the incident of beating the UOC priest Victor Krivanich by the priests of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church. Director of the regional police department Valentin Girnik told about the course of investigation on the matter above.

According to Valentin Girnik, the investigation is still pending, but everything proceeds “in line with current procedural requirements.”

The injured priest did not attend the meeting, since he is still in hospital.

“I am feeling much better, he told the UOJ reporter, - but the doctors believe it’s early to discharge me from hospital.”

According to the site of Cherkassy UOC eparchy, the UAOC representatives did not turn up at the RSA meeting. On the eve one of the persons involved in the conflict wrote on his page in Facebook he thinks the upcoming meeting to be a ”Shabbat of the “Russian world”.

The representatives of the Kiev Patriarchate who were present at the RSA meeting confirmed that one of the parties to conflict Pavel Dobriansky had been excluded from the KP for his inappropriate behavior.

The participants of the meeting demanded that the authorities should do their best to compel the UAOC priests to leave Katerinopol.