Another parish in Transcarpathia decided to go over to to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

The community of the Church of the Intercession in the town of Yasinya in Transcarpathia has decided to go over to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the Ukrinform reported with reference to a Facebook post by the Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration Ivanna Klimpush-Tsintsadze.

"Good news from our family’s home town of Yasinya in Transcarpathia. The community of the Church of the Intercession with the sincere support of the priest decided to go over to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine! I am proud that the residents of Yasinya are among the first communities of Transcarpathia to be freed from the Moscow shackles. I believe that others will follow them," – Klimpush-Tsintsadze wrote.

She added that the Church of the Intercession has a complex history: it was built as a Greek Catholic church, and when the Greek Catholic Church was banned in Ukraine, this temple was captured by the Moscow Patriarchate, and now it has returned to the spiritual Ukraine.

As of January 20, two parishes in Transcarpathia – in the village of Mynai near Uzhgorod and in Mizhhirya – have gone over to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

Yasinya is a town in Rakhiv district of Transcarpathian region. It is located at the foot of the Chornohora and Svydovets mountain ranges, on the Chorna Tisa river.

Dmytro Klimpush was one of the first Ukrainian entrepreneurs in Transcarpathia, one of the leaders of the Hutsul republic in 1918, the commander of the Carpathian Sich (military units of the independent Ukrainian state – Carpatho-Ukraine in 1938-39).