Chopovichi, Zhytomyr Province, Ukraine, April 6, 2026
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The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has reported on monastic tonsures at both men’s and women’s monasteries across the country throughout the Lenten season.
One of the most recent examples took place on March 28, the Saturday of the Akathist, at the Convent of the Athonite Icon of the Mother of God in the Kiev Diocese of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, where dozens of women gave their lives to God in monasticism, the monastery reports.
The monastery, located in the village of Chopovichi, Zhytomyr Province, celebrates its patronal feast on the Saturday of the Akathist.
The Divine Liturgy was celebrated by His Eminence Archbishop Alexander of Horodnitsya, vicar of the Kiev Diocese, with concelebrants including the monastery’s spiritual father, Archpriest Roman Baranovsky, and other clergy.
At the conclusion of the Liturgy, 25 sisters took vows and were tonsured into monasticism—some to the rank of riassaphore and some to the rank of the small schema, or stavrophore, which involves taking full monastic vows.
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