In the spring of 2023, Yuri Roy, an Orthodox priest from Grodno , left Belarus for Lithuania and came under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Since then, Father Yuri has served in Vilnius, in the Belarusian Orthodox Community of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
In the spring of 2026, it became known that a criminal case had been opened against Yuri Roy and he was put on the wanted list in the Republic of Belarus.
