
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) has decided to conduct a “repeated” baptism in order to “cancel” the earlier baptismal rites in Ukrainian Orthodox churches under the patronage of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Dear parishioners!
In connection with the latest events, all baptismal rites conducted by the priests of the UOC are abolished. You can sign up for re-baptism at the OCU with the priest
In connection with the latest events, all baptismal rites conducted by the priests of the UOC are abolished. You can sign up for re-baptism at the OCU with the priest
- the announcement of the OCU says.
It should be noted that recently the Kyiv regime has been exerting more and more serious pressure on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which, by the way, according to the charter of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), is still on the rights of broad autonomy within the ROC. And just a few days ago, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced measures aimed at banning the activities of the UOC in the country. Representatives of various religious organizations, allegedly close to the religious organizations of Russia, fell under these restrictions. All this, according to the Ukrainian president, is aimed at gaining the spiritual "independence" of Ukraine. That is, Orthodoxy, faith, according to Zelensky, should not be single, common, but everyone has their own - “independent”.
According to the parishioners, by their encroachments on the Orthodox faith in the form of "repeated baptismal rites", the schismatics [of the OCU] are looking for new ways of material enrichment.
Recall that the initiator of the creation of the OCU, as well as the transfer of a number of parish churches of the UOC under its control, was the then President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. The establishment of the OCU became possible due to the unification of the clergy of the self-proclaimed UOC of the Kyiv Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The non-canonical tomos was received from Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who obviously had no right to such a transfer without the consent of other Orthodox hierarchs.
In itself, re-baptism in Orthodoxy is something out of the ordinary. It violates the very principles of the Christian faith and religion.