On Sunday, December 23, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church headed
the Divine Liturgy in the Refectory Church of the
Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The following hierarchs concelebrated with him: Metropolitan of Luhansk and
Alchevsk Ioannikiy, Archbishop of Vinnytsya and Mohyliv-Podilskyi Symeon, Archbishop of Vyshgorod Pavel, Archbishop of
Bila Tserkva and Boguslav Mytrofan, Bishop of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk
Agapit, Bishop of Oleksandriya and Svitlovodsk Panteleimon, Bishop of Khotyn
Meletiy, Bishop of Boryspil Anthony, Bishop of Nizhyn and Baturin Iriney,
Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomiya Panteleimon, Bishop of Kremenchuk and
Khorol Evlogiy, Bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi Alexander. At the Divine Liturgy the assembly consecrated
archimandrite Feodor (Mamasuev) Bishop of Mukacheve and Uzhgorod.
It is to
be recalled that the Holy Synod of the UOC at the last session on December 21,
removed His Eminence Mark, Archbishop of Khust and Vinogradiv, temporary
administrator of the Mukacheve Diocese, from administration of this diocese. Archimandrite
Feodor, a clergyman of the Mukacheve
Diocese was assigned to this post.
In course
of the liturgy Vladyka Feodor performed his first ordination: the secretary of
the External Church Relations of the UOC Valeriy Kravets was ordained to the
holy priesthood.
After the
liturgy His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr turned to Bishop Feodor with a word of severance and
handed him the bishop crosier. The latter
for the first time in the holy order called for the blessing on those present.
On the eve
of consecartion in the Primate residence of His Beatitude in the Kyiv-Pechersk
Lavra the rite of nomination of archimandrite
Feodor (Mamasuev) as Bishop of Mukacheve was performed.
At the end
of the ceremony father Feodor delivered his Word on nomination, in which, in
particular, he asked the Primate and the Bishops for prayers for the due
performance of his archpastoral duties.
"Standing
in front of You, I ask You with augmented prayer: when the Lord honours me
through the laying of Your hands to receive the fullness of the hierarch's
grace, raise your prayers to the Great Lord and Father not to leave me without
his mercy, so that performing my highest and at the same time painstaking
service I was worthy of this greatest grace and kept it complete and intact up
to the end of my days.' - said the newly appointed bishop.
Then His
Beatitude aspersed the nominant with holy water and called upon him his
archipastoral blessing.
Bishop
Feodor was born in 1966 in the city of Sambir, Lviv region. In 1989 he was tonsured a monk with the name
Feodor after Hieromartyr Theodore, archbishop of Alexandria.In 1990 with the
blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy he was assigned to the St.Michael
Convent of Mukacheve. In May1996 he wass elevated to the rank of archimandrite
by His Beatitude Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine. Since 1997-го -father confessoe of the St.Michael Convent of Mukacheve. In this holy abode he had served until his
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