Ukraine's Request to Monks to Vacate Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is ‘Criminal Act’: Bishop

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The request of the government of Ukraine to the monastics of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra to vacate the monastery by March 29 is a criminal act and the direct invasion to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), Russian Church Abroad (ROCOR) Bishop of Seattle Theodosy told Sputnik.