🇺🇦❌☦️🇷🇴 The Ukrainian government has denied the request made by the Romanian Orthodox Church which tried to register itself with the Ukrainian Ministry of Religious Cults and open up a bishopric in the Cernăuți (Chernivtsi) Oblast.

In the place of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) which served the Romanian minority in Cernăuți until the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces with the help of national security forces seized many of the churches belonging to the UOC, Ukraine has refused to right the wrong made by the USSR in 1944 when it kicked out the Romanian Church and forcefully confiscated and transferred the churches to the Russian led UOC. To its credit, the UOC allowed the use of Romanian in its churches where a Romanian community lived.

Kiev has decided to fully support the schismatic (some would say, outright heretical) Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) which firmly rejects the use of other languages in religious services other than Ukrainian. This is just another attempt done by Kiev to assimilate the Romanian minority in Ukraine by forcing the Romanians in Cernăuți to pray in Ukrainian only.

Step by step Kiev eliminated Romanian from its schools and now it has eliminated Romanian from its churches. Next up: the imprisonment of those that speak Romanian at home following the Austro-Hungarian model seen in Transylvania more than a century ago.

@Wallachian_Gazette