A number of UOC-MP clergymen pack their bags to leave for Moscow
Recently among the UOC-MP clergymen there has been a tendency to emigrate. This trend captures not only ordinary priests, but the hierarchs as well. Thus, the Holy Synod of the UOC -MP, held on June, 19, determined the further ministry of Bishop Nektariy (Frolov) of Dubno, vicar of the Diocese of Rivne. He will serve in Russia, the official website of the UOC -MP reports.
On hearing the report of Bishop Nektarios, the Synod participants decided to dismiss him from his post as vicar of the Diocese of Rivne (Journal 26).
They adopted another decision to submit the bishop under jurisdiction of Patriarch of the ROC Kirill (Gundiayev).
It should be noted that before becoming Vicar of the Diocese of Rivne, Bishop Nectariy chaired the diocese of Dzhankoi and Rozdolne of the UOC -MP. During his tenure in the Crimea, the attention of media was attracted by scandals that occurred in the diocese and were linked with his name.
Note that after the events at Maidan and the Russian aggression against Ukraine, the cases of the emigration of the clergy of the UOC -MP to the Russian Federation became more frequent. In particular, according to Religion in Ukraine website, recently Archpriest Maxym Volynets, a clergyman of the UOC-MP Diocese of Luhansk moved to Moscow region. The following clergymen had earlier left Ukraine as well: Secretary of the UOC-MP Diocese of Odessa Archpriest Andriy Novikov, who was appointed rector of Holy Trinity Church on the Vorobyovy Hills in Moscow, Head of Religious Education, Catechism and Missionary Work Department Archpriest Oleg Mokryak, Head of the Missionary Department of the UOC-MP Diocese of Kyiv Archpriest Andriy Tkachov and father confessor of the militants of Luhansk Archpriest Oleg Trofimov.
