Programme of Archpastoral Visit of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to Ukraine

16:00 – Arrival to Odessa

Welcome ceremony

Meeting the press

16:30 – Visit to Holy Dormition Cathedral

17:10 – Visit to Holy Dormition Monastery

July 21 (Wednesday)

08:30 – Consecration of Holy Transfiguration Cathedral. Divine Liturgy

18:00 – Visit to Orphanage “Zhemchuzhinka”

July 22 (Thursday)

18:00 – Meeting with community of Odessa (National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet).

July 24 (Saturday)

10:00 – Departure to Dniepropetrovsk

11:00 – Arrival to Dniepropetrovsk

Welcome ceremony

Meeting the press

11:30 – Visit to diocesan administration

Meeting with diocesan clergy

12:45 – Visit to Sebastopol park

Laying of a wreath to the monument to the heroes of the Russian-Turkish war

13:15 – Visit to the state enterprise “Production association Southern Machine-building A.M.Markov Plant” (Yuzhmash)

– Consecration of the Church of Resurrection of Christ under construction

18:00 – All-Night Vigils at Holy Trinity Cathedral (Matins)

July 25 (Sunday)

08:30 – Divine Liturgy at Holy Transfiguration of Our Saviour Cathedral

13:30 – Laying of a wreath to the Memorial of Glory

13:45 – Visit to the regional I.Mechnikov Hospital

15:00 – Departure to Kyiv.

16:00 – Arrival to Kyiv (Boryspil airport)

Welcome ceremony.

Meeting the press.

16:30 – Visit to St. Sophia Cathedral

17:15 – Visit to Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra

July 26 (Monday)

12:00 – Session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

July 27 (Tuesday)

10:00 – Solemn prayer service at St. Vladimir’s Hill

12:00 – Visit to St. Jonah Monastery (presentation of the youth and church social projects to His Holiness the Patriarch)

18:00 – All-Night Vigils in Soborna square, Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra

July 28 (Wednesday)

09:00 – Divine Liturgy in in Soborna square, Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra