UOC Hierarchs’ Assembly Consecrated New Bishop
Vladyka Evlohiy
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
On December 13, commemoration day of the Holy Apostle Andrew-the First-Called, the Primate of the UOC presided over the Divine Liturgy at the Refectory Church of the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
Concelebrating to His Beatitude were Metropolitan Ioannikiy of Luhansk and Alchevsk, Metropolitan Iriney of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad, Metropolitan Sophrony of Cherkasy and Kaniv, Metropolitan Niphont of Lutsk and Volyn, Archbishop Ionafan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, Archbishop Mykolai of Bilogorod, Archbishop Ephraim of Kryvyy Rih and Nikopol, Archbishop Gurias of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynskyy, Archbishop Pavel of Vyshgorod, Archbishop Mytrofan of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav, Archbishop Philipp of Poltava and Myrhorod, Archbishop Luka of Konotop and Hlukhiv, Archbishop Anthony of Boryspil, Bishop Petro of Khinkov, Bishop Nicodemus of Volodymyr-Volynskyy and Kovel, Bishop Iriney of Nizhyn and Pryluky, Bishop Ilary of Makariv, Bishop Seraphim of Yahotyn, Bishop Panteleimon of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomiysk, Bishop Stephan of Turiv and Mozyr, Bishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy (Secretary for the Primate of the UOC), Bishop Panteleimon of Vasylkiv, Bishop Volodymyr of Rovenky, Bishop Tikhon of Kremenchuk and Lubny, the academic clergy of Lavra and the clergy representatives of other theological schools.
Those days at the Kyiv Theological Schools the solemn events dedicated to celebration of the 20th anniversary of revival of the Kyiv Theological Seminary. On this occasion at the Lesser Entrance during the divine office Metropolitan Volodymyr bestowed church awards on some teachers of the Academy and Seminary. Thus, the right of wearing of the decorated pectoral cross was bestowed on archpriests Serhiy Veygo (Canon Law), Maxim Boyko (chief of the correspondence department), Pavlo Kozar (Liturgical Theology), Alexy Koval (Moral Theology: chief of the academic library), and Alexander Popov (Canon Law). Also the Archpastor elevated to the rank of hegumen the teacher of Common Church History hieromonk Philaret (Havrin) and the teacher of the Canon Law hieromonk Sylvester (Stoychev).
In the course of the divine office the synaxis of bishops of the UOC and of the foreign Orthodox Churches consecrated the teacher of the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary archimandrite Evlohiy Patsan as Bishop of Novomoskovsk, Vicar of the Diocese of Dnipropetrovsk.
At the Liturgy Vladyka Evlohiy performed his first priest ordination. He ordained priest the 3rd-year student of the Kyiv Theological Seminary deacon Yaroslav Furik.
Following the divine service His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr addressed the newly consecrated bishop with a word of instruction and handed Bishop Tikhon a crosier – a symbol of the archpastoral ministry. Thereafter Vladyka Evlohiy gave the faithful his first archpastoral blessing.
At the end His Beatitude greeted the laity on the commemoration of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called and wished everyone his prayerful intercession before the Lord.
The previous evening the Primate conducted the festive All-Night Vigils at the Refectory Church of Lavra.
REFERENCE. Vladyka Evlohiy got his theological education at the cradle of the orthodoxy in our land – the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, studying at the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary. Having completed his study of theological sciences he began soon the teaching and research activity within the walls of his alma mater. In the course of his pedagogical work the future archpastor taught such disciplines as Biblical History, English and Pastoral Theology.
