Sunday, August 24, 2008

Orthodox (UOC-MP) Head Visits Simferopol

22.08.2008, [14:23] // UOC-MP //

Simferopol—The main aim of the visit of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan), to southern Ukraine’s Simferopol Eparchy is to participate in celebratory events on the occasion of the beatification of Archbishop Hurii (Karpov). The event is to take place in Simferopol on 23 August. Metropolitan Volodymyr arrived in Crimea on 19 August 2008.

The head of UOC-MP was met by UOC-MP Metropolitan Lazar (Shvets) of Simferopol and Crimea as well as the head of the Council of Ministers of the Crimean Autonomous Republic, Viktor Plakida, and the head of the republic’s Parliament, Anatolii Hryshchenko.

Metropolitan Volodymyr is being accompanied during his visit by the superior of the Kyivan Monastery of the Caves, Archbishop Pavel (Lebid) of Vyshhorod, Archbishop Luka (Kovalenko) of Konotop and Hlukhiv, and his personal secretary, Bishop Oleksandr (Drabynko) of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi.

Metropolitan Volodymyr visited the women’s monastery of the Holy Trinity in Simferopol. During the visit, he presented an icon of Prince Volodymyr to Ihumena (Mother Superior) Yevseviia.

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