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Expulsion of Moscow priests
1992, 11 min
Lutsk, Holy Trinity Cathedral, July 30, 1992. Representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, led by civic activist Hennadii Kozhevnykov, storm the Holy Trinity Cathedral. They demand that the priests of the Moscow Patriarchate be expelled from the church.
The video shows a crowd, police, pushing, priests sealing the doors of the cathedral, special forces, a speech by a priest of the Moscow Patriarchate, people chanting “Glory to Ukraine,” women kissing the hands of a Moscow priest.
On August 12, 1992, according to the order of Yuriy Lenartovych, who was acting as the head of the regional state administration, the Holy Trinity Cathedral and the complex of buildings around it were transferred to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate.
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