Kiev, July 26, 2024
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A host of hierarch, clerics, monastics, and faithful gathered yesterday to celebrate the name’s day of the primate of the canonical and persecuted Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine led the Divine Liturgy for the feast of St. Onuphrios the Great in the main cathedral of the St. Panteleimon’s Monastery in Kiev, reports the UOC’s Information-Education Department.
Photo: news.church.ua
The service was sung by the choir of the Kiev Theological Academy. Prayers were offered for peace in Ukraine, for the healing of the sick, and for shelter for those who have lost their homes.
“Many years” was proclaimed for His Beatitude at the end of the service. He was then presented with an award from the Holy Synod—the UOC’s order of the Resurrection of Christ.
Met. Onuphry thanked all those present and spoke about the life of St. Onuphrios.
His Beatitude also received greetings from brother primates, including His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America (who recently visited the UOC) and His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav of the Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, as well as the Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
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