Dean for Monasteries of the Kyiv Diocese Visited Five Abodes
At the blessing of the UOC Primate, His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine, on July 4 through 11 the Dean of the Kyiv Diocese for Monasteries archimandrite Theodosius Snihiriov visited 3 (men’s) monasteries and 2 (women’s) convents in Kyiv and Kyiv region:
July 4- the Holy Dormition Convent in the village of Raykivshchyna, Yahotyn region, July 7 – the monastery in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Urochyshche Tserkovshchyna, along the highway to Dnipropetrovsk, July 10 – the Holy Annunciation Monastery in Bortnychi, Kyiv, the Monastery of the Icon of the Mother of God “Life-Giving Spring” in Boryspil, July 11 – the Convent of the Venerable Anastasia of Kyiv in Kovlivka village, Vasylkiv region.
In every abode Fr. Dean presided over the Divine Liturgy, said sermon on the importance and height of the monastic feat, got acquainted with the statutes of monastic life, the course of the construction and repair works, monastery document keeping. The representative of the Kyiv Metropolis was given hospitable welcome in the abodes, the deputy abbots and abbesses told about the monastery life, the monastic joys and difficulties.
REFERENCE. Altogether in the Diocese of Kyiv of the UOC there are 21 monasteries: 20 monasteries and 1 Lavra. 14 out of them are men’s abodes and 7 women’s abodes – 12 are in Kyiv and 9 in Kyiv region.
