His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr prayed at St Sophia
KYIV. For the first time His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr prayed at St Sophia
26-07-2010 09:32
On July 26, for the first time of 18 years of his tenure of the Kyiv See, His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine prayed at the historical cathedral of the Metropolitans of Kyiv.
It was also for the first time that the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church attends St Sophia.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia in concelebration of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr performed a prayer service. Concelebrating to them also were the members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church and the members of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Upon completion of the prayer service His Holiness Patriarch Kirill addressed those present with archpastoral word in which he called to pray for restoring unity of Ukrainian Orthodoxy under omophorion of the Metropolitan of Kyiv.
In remembrance of his visit of the ancient cathedral of all Rus, His Holiness the Patriarch granted to St Sophia Church a copy of an icon of the Mother of God “Of the Sign” form St Sophia Church of Novhorod.
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