ODESSA, Ukraine — If the largest cathedral in this besieged port city survived Joseph Stalin, it will survive Vladimir Putin, said Myroslav Vdodovych, the chief priest of Transfiguration ...

In one example, the Moscow Patriarchate church relinquished control of the Holy Dormition Cathedral to the government in January, and, on Sunday, Ukraine’s independent church held its first-ever ...

Ukraine reclaims Kyiv cathedral amid church dispute Jan 5, 2023, 5:17 PM | Updated: Jan 6, 2023, 1:14 pm FILE - A monk and a woman walk inside the Pechersk Lavra monastic complex in Kyiv, Ukraine ...

Cathedral clash. Russian-affiliated priests refused to acknowledge the decision, claiming despite the expiration of the lease that they have the right to stay in the Lavra churches until the war ends.

Here: Panorama of the central part of Kharkiv with the Dormition Cathedral in center of Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 3, 2022 (Photo by Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via AP) ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian government has taken the main cathedral of the revered historic monastery from the church previously affiliated with Moscow’s patriarchate and allowed its ...

Ukrainian Minister of Culture Oleksandr Tkachenko had said Thursday that the Dormition Cathedral and the Refectory Church of the widely revered nearly 1,000-year-old Pechersk Lavra — also known ...

The Ukrainian government has taken the main cathedral of the revered historic Orthodox monastery from the church previously affiliated with Moscow’s patriarchate and allowed its Ukrainian rival ...