Programme of Visit-His Holiness Patriarch Kirill to Ukraine

Program of Archpastoral Visit of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to Ukraine from July 27 to August 5, 2009
(Program changes possible)

July 27, Monday

08.30 – arrival to Boryspil Airport (local time)
09.45 – departure from the airport
09.10 – arrival to St. Vladimir’s Hill, meeting of the Patriarch
09.15 – prayer service
09.30 – laying flowers to the monument of the Holy Prince Vladimir

– greeting word of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr
– response speech of His Holiness the Patriarch

09.40 – coming out to the press
10.00-10.10 – leaving for the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra
10.10 – meeting of His Holiness the Patriarch at the Near Caves

– Deputy Abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Archbishop Pavel welcomes the Patriarch
– visit to the Church of Exaltation of the Cross, bowing unto the Wonderworking Icon of the Dormition of the Theotokos
– common photo with the brethren of Lavra

11.00 – meeting with the President of Ukraine
11.30 – Laying wreaths to the monument of Glory
11.40 – Laying wreaths to the Monument of the Victims of the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor)
11.45 – coming out to the press
12.00 – Session of the Holy Synod
16.45 – meeting of His Holiness the Patriarch at the Holy Gates of Lavra
17.00 – All-Night Vigils

July 28, Tuesday
Commemoration of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir

08.45 – meeting of His Holiness the Patriarch at the Holy Gates of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra
09.00 – Divine Liturgy
11.30 – sacred procession to the Far Caves
13.10 – looking over the construction site of the Cathedral of Resurrection of Christ
13.40 – festive reception
18.00 – participation of His Holiness the Patriarch in live broadcast of Dovzhenko TV-Studio

July 29, Wednesday

10.00 – meeting with the hierarchs, clergy, monastics, laity, teachers and students of the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary and the intellectuals at the Refectory church of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra
12.45 – visit to the Convent of the Holy Protection
16.00 – set-off to Donetsk
17.00 – arrival to Donetsk
17.00 – coming out to the press
17.40 – visit to the Cathedral of Transfiguration of Our Savior in Donetsk

July 30, Thursday

Commemoration of the Icon of the Mother of God of Svyatogorsk

09.00 – the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra
15.00 – departure to Horlivka
16.30 – visit to the Cathedral of Horlivka
17.00 – departure to Donetsk

July 31, Friday

09.00 – departure to Sts. Nicholas and Basil’s Monastery
10.00 – visit to Sts. Nicholas and Basil’s Monastery
12.00 – departure to the airport of Donetsk
13.00 – flight to Simferopol
14.00 – arrival to Simferopol
14.45 – visit to the Holy Trinity Monastery
16.00 – visit to the construction site of the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky. Blessing of the crosses.
16.30 – coming out to the press

August 2, Sunday
Commemoration of the Holy Prophet Elias

08.00 – Divine Liturgy at St. Vladimir’s Cathedral in Chersonese (Sebastopol)
11.30 – Solemnities in Nakhimova Square
14.30 – departure to Airport “Belbek” of Sebastopol
16.00 – flight from Sebastopol to Rivne
17.15 – arrival to the airport of Rivne
17.30 – departure to Korets
18.30 – meeting at the Stauropegial Holy Trinity Convent

– visit to the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity of the Convent
– Memorial Litia for the deceased abbesses of the Convent
– visit to the Choirmaster Catechization School

August 3, Monday

09.00 – Divine Liturgy at the Korets Monastery
12.00 – departure to Horodok
13.15 – visit to St. Nicholas Monastery of Horodok
13.40 – coming out to the press
15.15 – departure to Lutsk
16.00 – arrival to Lutsk. Attendance of the Cathedral of All Saints of the Lands of Volyn, under construction
16.30 – departure to the Holy Dormition Monastery of Zimne
17.15 – meeting at the Monastery of Zimne
17.20 – visit to the Cathedral of Dormition in Zimne

August 4, Tuesday

11.50 – departure to Volodymyr-Volynskyi
12.00 – visit to the Holy Dormition Cathedral of Volodymyr-Volynskyi
14.00 – departure to Pochayiv Lavra
16.00 – meeting of His Holiness the Patriarch at the Holy Gates of Pochayiv Lavra
17.00 – All-Night Vigils

August 5, Wednesday

Commemoration of the Icon of the Mother of God of Pochayiv

08.45 – meeting of His Holiness the Patriarch at the central gates
09.00 – Divine Liturgy. Moleben. Blessing of the bells
16.30 – flight to Moscow

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