Metropolitan Onufry denied reports of Russian citizenship

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Metropolitan Onufry denied reports of Russian citizenship

Metropolitan Onufry denied reports of Russian citizenship – RIA Novosti, 08/04/2023

Metropolitan Onufry denied reports of Russian citizenship

The Primate of the Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), Metropolitan Onufry of Kyiv and All Ukraine, said that at the moment he only has … RIA Novosti, 08/04/2023

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MOSCOW, April 8 – RIA Novosti. Primate of the Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), Metropolitan Onufry of Kyiv and All Ukraine, said he currently only has Ukrainian citizenship, although he previously had a passport Russian. Earlier, Ukrayinska Pravda newspaper said Onufry had a Russian passport. “I would like to declare right away that I do not consider myself a citizen of Russia… I do not have a Russian passport. I consider myself a citizen only of Ukraine,” Onufriy said in a statement posted on the UOC website. As Onufry, born in the Chernivtsi region, said that in his youth he could not enter the theological seminary in Odessa, so he went to the city of Sergiev Posad (then called Zagorsk – ed.), where he graduated from the Moscow Theological School. Seminary, then the Theological Academy. He spent 19 years in Trinidad-Sergius Lavra. In 1988 Onufry was transferred to Pochaev Lavra, and in 1990 to Bucovina, where he was originally from. “At that time the Soviet Union collapsed and I, being a de facto citizen of Russia before (because I had a permanent residence permit in Russia, which in modern terms meant citizenship), I took a Ukrainian passport,” he said. At the same time, according to Onufry, Russian citizenship was automatically maintained, but he did not use it, then it “did not matter”, because there were good relations between Ukraine and Russia. Russia. However, according to Onufry, after relations between the two countries began to deteriorate, especially over the past 10 years, he renounced Russian citizenship. Over the past year, Ukrainian authorities have staged the largest wave of persecution of the UOC in the country’s recent history. Referring to its links with Russia, local authorities in different regions of Ukraine have decided to ban the activities of the UOC, and a draft law on its effective ban in Ukraine has been submitted to the country’s parliament. The authorities imposed sanctions against some representatives of the UOC clergy. Ukraine’s Security Service has begun criminal proceedings against UOC clergy, carrying out “counter-intelligence activities” – searches of bishops and priests, in churches and monasteries, seeking evidence of “anti-Ukrainian activities”.

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Metropolitan Onufry denied reports of Russian citizenship