Court upholds “transfer” of UOC cathedral in Kremenchuk to the OCU
Dormition Cathedral of the UOC in Kremenchuk. Photo: kg.ua
On September 15, 2025, the Commercial Court of Kyiv rejected the lawsuit of the religious community of the UOC’s Dormition Cathedral in Kremenchuk, which sought to invalidate the protocol of the general meeting on the “transfer” to the OCU and to overturn the order of the Poltava Regional Administration. This was reported by Kremenchuk Gazette, citing Kremenchuk City Council deputy Bohdan Lazorenko.
According to him, the protocol recorded a “conscious and ideological choice of the people” to “transfer” to the OCU. Lazorenko claimed this was the decision of the “religious community,” and that only the “Moscow priests” disagreed with it.
As the UOJ reported earlier, on December 27, 2024, in Kremenchuk representatives of the OCU cut the locks and broke into the Dormition Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The intruders broke the Royal Doors of the iconostasis and entered the altar. Believers were especially outraged by the fact that one of the activists, a woman, also entered the altar.
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