He stated that the letter, sent by the "Kiev Pechersk Lavra" State Reserve, demanding that the monks leave the monastery does not constitute legal basis for their expulsion: that would require a ...

TASS/. The Kiev-Pechersk Lavra has been registered as a monastery within the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), with OCU leader Epiphanius (Dumenko) heading the monastery as a legal ...

The reason was an announcement on March 10 by the Zelensky government that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) would have to relinquish control of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, a large monastery ...

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Overlooking the Dnieper River is the Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery complex, a Christian pilgrimage site housing Scythian tomb relics and catacombs containing mummified Orthodox monks.