When Russian troops invaded Ukraine, the congregation of the Kiev Church of Our Lady of the Sign went to Father Yuri with an ultimatum: to break with the Moscow-led Russian Orthodox Church and join the Ukrainian one, or to leave the parish altogether.
“I have no idea where he is now,” said Father Hryhoriy Foya, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest who was elected to replace him last month after refusing to decide to belong to the Moscow Patriarchate. “Maybe he’s in Russia.” The church is among dozens that have parted ways with Moscow’s church leadership over the war and its full support for Patriarch Kirill, called Putin’s bishop.
The breakaway churches embrace the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which was
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