Lower Lavra News Today

The Kyiv City Council has officially transferred land ownership to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Reserve, reported the Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration Petro Olenych on Telegram on Feb. 8.

Walt Garlington notes that of all the lies being told to Americans in our legacy media and elsewhere, three stand out.

After the start of the full-scale invasion, there have been people who behaved strangely at services and meetings on the monastery's grounds, Acting Abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Archimandrite Abraham said in an interview with RFE/RL project “Skhemy” on Sept. 2.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has equated students and teachers of Kiev Theological Schools with visitors to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and banned access to the territory of the monastery and the buildings of the Kiev Theological Academy and Seminary, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) said.

The Russian-backed church was required to return 79 objects from the section of the monastery known as the Lower Lavra.

Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Reserve suspended visitors from accessing the territory of Lower Lavra.

Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, a personal representative of Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople Bartholomew, arrived in Kyiv on Aug. 10 at the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU).

The Commercial Court of Kyiv has recognised the termination of the contract of free use concluded between the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (men's monastery) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) and the National Reserve Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra as legal.

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko announced on July 6 that his regime will provide “sanctuary” to monks from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, according to the pro-government Telegram channel Pul Pervogo.

UOC-MP representatives once again hindered the work of the Ministry of Culture Commission at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. The commission was supposed to seal the buildings not used for religious purposes.