November 23 is the Birthday Anniversary of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr
OnNovember 23 the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr celebrates his 74th birthday anniversary.
He has celebrated the
Divine Liturgy at the Refectory Church of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in concelebration of the ruling
bishops and clergymen of the Diocese of Kyiv. Also praying at the liturgical
service were chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the
Russian Orthodox Church Archbishop Hilarion of Volokalamsk and Archbishop
Seraphim of Ottawa
and All Canada.
On behalf of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill His Eminence Hilarion presented the UOC Primate with a panagia and read out the greeting address. The gift on the part of the Orthodox Church in America was a collection of works by Taras Shevchenko, published in 1952 and a medal with an image of the Patriarch of
Moscow Tikhon.
On November 23 at the national Philharmonic Hall of Ukraine the
solemn Academy will beheld on the occasion of the birthday of His Beatitude Metropolitan
Volodymyr. On the program of the event those
attending will have a possibility to listen to the oratorio "St. Matthew
Passion" by Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk.
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