Yevstratii Zoria, deputy head of the Department of External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, wrote about this on Facebook.
The relevant dossier also appeared on the Youcontrol website.
Zoria noted that on December 1, 2022, the charter of the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was registered. Information about the legal entity was entered into the Unified State Register on December 2, 2022.
“In order to restore historical justice and overcome the consequences of the non-canonical subordination of the Ukrainian shrine to the power of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Holy Synod of the OCU at its meeting on May 23, 2022 (Resolution №30) decided to create a religious organization within the Local Church - the men's monastery Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra,” he wrote.
He also noted that the Synod instructed His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphanius to address Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers with a request to provide one of the Lavra's temples in its upper part for divine services. Another room was requested to be provided for monastery activities.
According to his position, the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine is the canonical and spiritual head of the Kyiv Lavra, i.e. priest-archimandrite. By the decision of the Synod, he was appointed to head the monastery as a legal entity.