The UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate reported that it has four new metropolitans and two archbishops.
According to the Information Center of the Moscow Patriarchate, on August 17, the day of the sixth anniversary of the enthronement of the Head of the ROC in Ukraine, Metropolitan Onufriy, four bishops were elevated to the rank of metropolitans at the celebrations in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
With the blessing of the Primate of the UOC MP the following persons became metropolitans:
Volodymyr of Kamyanka and Tsarychany, Filaret of Nova Kakhovka and Henychesk,
Mykolai of Kremenchuk and Lubeny, Longin of Banchen, vicar of the Diocese of Chernivtsi.
The following bishops were elevated to the rank of Archbishop:
Mykola of Vasylkiv, vicar of the Diocese of Kyiv, Yevseviy of Shepetivka and Slavuta.