The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine finally took away the Pochaev Lavra from the canonical Church
The Cabinet of Ministers returned the Pochaev Holy Dormition Lavra in the Ternopil region to the Kremenets-Pochaev Nature Reserve, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
At a meeting on November 28, the government canceled order No. 438 of July 17, 2003 “On the exclusion of the structure of the Pochaev Holy Dormition Lavra from the Kremenets-Pochaev State Historical and Architectural Reserve,” reports the Government Portal.
In 2003, when this decision was made, Viktor Yanukovych was prime minister.
In November, the anti-raider commission of the Ministry of Justice canceled the state registration (excluded from the register) of the rights of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to use the Pochaev Holy Dormition Lavra in the Ternopil region and transferred it back to the management of the Kremenets-Pochaev State Historical and Architectural Reserve.
The Commission of the Ministry of Justice came to the conclusion that the registrar allegedly violated the requirements of the current legislation when registering the right of use for the complex of Lavra structures.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church stated that the decision of the Ministry of Justice to cancel the registration of the complex of buildings of the Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra behind the UOC monastery does not deprive it of the right to use them, since this decision does not cancel the agreement on use from 2003.