KYIV. Primate of Ukrainian Orthodox Church Conducted Memorial Litia for Holodomor Victims of 1932-1933
OnNovember 28 the tribute to the victims of the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor) of 1932-33 is paid in Ukraine.
That
day in the territory of the State Museum "Memorial of Holodomor Victims in Ukraine"
(Mazepy str 15-а, Kyiv) the Primate of the Ukrainian
Orthodox Church His Beatitude
Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine conducted memorial litia for the
innocent victims-compatriots.
Concelebrating
with His Beatitude were his vicar bishops: Archbishop Pavel of Vyshgorod and Archbishop Anthony of Boryspil, Bishop
Hilary of Makariv, Bishop Seraphim of Yahotyn and Bishop Alexander of
Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy (Secretary for the Primate of the UOC), and the Kyiv
clergy.
In
the course of the ceremony the Archpastor laid a flower wreath to the monument.
Singing the
memorial chants at the divine service was the choir of the Kyiv Theological
Academy and Seminary under
the guidance of Roman Pidlubniak.
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