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Orthodox Christians in Kiev demanded the return of St. Sophia cathedral to the canonical Church - Interfax
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Volume 8 Number 4 - Friday, January 27, 2006 Posted: January 23, 2006
Kiev, January 23, Interfax - Action to demand the return of St. Sophia Cathedral to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church was held in Kiev on Sunday, participating in which were members of the Union of Orthodox Citizens of Ukraine and Orthodox Christians of Kiev.
Several thousand people participated in the procession with the cross, vigil and rally.
The participants picketed against the intention of the adherents of the Greek Catholic church (the Uniates) to exhibit a replica of the Shroud of Turin in St. Sophia cathedral. Participants in the action consider this intention as an attempt to seize St. Sophia cathedral, which is an Orthodox holy place.
‘We shall continue our vigils at St. Sophia in Kiev until this great holy place of the Orthodox world, where the princes of Kievan Rus’ were crowned to reign, from where Orthodox faith has spread throughout the Russian land, is not returned to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox church’, chairman of the Union of Orthodox citizens of Ukraine Valery Kaurov said.
He underscored that ‘any encroachment of the uniates and schismatics on the holy place is a blasphemy. We shall not permit it’.
Earlier the Ukrainian Orthodox Church stated that according to received information, the Ukrainian state leadership decided to permit Greek Catholics to bring a Byelorussian replica of the Shroud of Turin to St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev and conduct a so-called ‘common service by representatives of different confessions’ at the Orthodox holy place on January 22.
‘Uniates ignored the opinion of Orthodox Ukrainians and continue their expansion in the capital of country striving to seize St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev’, Orthodox Church press-service reported.
However, bad weather prevented the replica of the Shroud of Turin to be brought from Lvov to Kiev. A heated conflict has developed between Orthodox and Greek Catholics in Ukraine because of the shroud.
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