Delegations of UOC-MP and RCC Leave Independence Day Event Due to Discord with Head of Lviv Regional Council

On August 20 citizens, leaders of the city and region, and clergy from different denominations gathered in the Lviv Opera House in honor of the upcoming Independence Day of Ukraine.

After the speech of the head of the Lviv regional council, Myroslav Senyk, where he called only the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church “our own,” national and worthy of support, members of the delegations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate and the Roman Catholic Church left the event, reports UNIAN.

As informs Galinfo, the mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, also brought up the church topic and stated that he wants “a unity of churches in Ukraine.”