His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr performed the last rite for his elder brother Stepan Sabodan
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
On Sunday, October 31, the only blood brother of the Primate of the UOC, His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr, passed away to the Lord.
On November 1 the primate celebrated the memorial Divine Liturgy and a burial service for Stepan Sabodan in the Refectory (Sts Anthony and Theodosius) Church of the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
Concelebrating to His Beatitude also were Metropolitan Lazarus of Crimea and Simferopol, Archbishop Pavel of Vyshgorod, Archbishop Anthony of Boryspil, Bishop Iriney of Pryluky and Nizhyn, Bishop Hilary of Makariv, Bishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy (Secretary for the Primate of the UOC) and the monastery clergymen.
The burial of Stepan Sabodan is to take place on November 2, in his native Markivtsi village.
Stepan Sabodan was born in 1932 in Markivtsi village of Letychiv district, Khmelnytskyy region. For 40 years he worked as veterinarian at the kolkhoz. In Sabodans’ family there were four sons of whom His Beatitude Volodymyr is the youngest. The elder brother Stepan became the dearest person for His Beatitude after their mother died in 1989. In her lifetime all family gathered by tradition in the native home of Sabodans on Pascha and Nativity. When the mother died, Stepan Sabodan carried on with the tradition.
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