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UNIAN: Head of Moscow-controlled Ukrainian Orthodox Church lands up on Myrotvorets database

By UNIAN.

Published Sept. 26, 2018 at 4:38 pm

Head of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Onufriy lays flowers to the place on Instytutska Street where peaceful protesters were shot during the EuroMaidan Revolution on July 27, 2017 in Kyiv.

Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk

Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) Metropolitan Onufriy (Berezovsky), 73, has been included in Ukraine’s Myrotvorets (Peacekeeper) Center database, which lists individuals who pose a threat to the country’s security.

Onufriy’s profile posted on the website describes him as an agent of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine and an opponent of the creation of an independent local church.