Autocephaly for the Ukrainian arquiv Odessa region the first community moved in ptsuPhoto: UKRINFORM

For the transition voted more than 300 residents of the community

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The community of St. Demetrius Puzhaikove the village of Balta district of Odessa region announced the transition of the UOC-MP Orthodox Church in Ukraine.

About it reports Radio Freedom.

For the decision to move from the UOC MP into a Single local Ukrainian Church voted more than 300 residents of the community.

“The community has expressed the wish that the village was created the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Was the appropriate Protocol was signed, a document handed of the Odessa regional state administration,” – said the press-Secretary of the Odessa-Balta eparchy father Theodore Orobets.

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According to him, Baptism was celebrated in a rural Church as a priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

We will remind, according to the representative of the President in the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Lutsenko, has about 70 parishes of the UOC-MP came under the jurisdiction of a United Orthodox Church of Ukraine.