Session of the Commission for Canonization of Saints to the Holy Synod of the UOC Held
2/3/2010
On March 2 at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra the session of the commission for Canonization of the Saints to the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The session was presided over by Archbishop Ioann of Kherson and Tavriysk.
The Commission representatives listened to the report of His Grace Seraphim, Vicar of the Kyiv Metropolis, Bishop of Yahotyn on the possibility of glorification among the ranks of the locally venerated saints of the Diocese of Kyiv hegumen Bonifatius (Vynohradskyy) (+27.12.1871. old style), and the report of His Grace Philipp, Archbishop of Poltava and Myrhorod on the possibility of glorification among the ranks of the locally venerated saints of the Diocese of Poltava Archbishop Athanasius (Volkhovskyy) (+01.01.1801. old style).
The Commission approved of the following: to send reports to His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr concerning the possibility of glorification among the saints of the God-pleasers mentioned.
