On Saturday, August 23, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
presided over the festivities on the occasion of glorification among saints of
the Holy Hierarch Gurias (Karpov). That day all the clergy of the Diocese of
Crimea gathered in Simferopol, as well as
thousands of believers who came from various places of Ukraine and
near abroad.
That day the Primate celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Sts.
Peter and Paul in Symferopol.
Concelebrating with His
Beatitude were: Metropolitan Iriney of Dnipropetrovsk amd Pavlohrad,
Metropolitan Lazarus of Simferopol and Crimea, Archbishop Ionafan of Tulchin
and Bratslav, Archbishop Sophrony of Kaniv and Cherkasy, Archbishop Ephraim of
Nikolpol and Kryvyi Rih, Archbishop Pavel of
Vyshgorod, Archbishop Luka of Glukhiv and Konotop, Bishop of Khotyn Melety,
Bishop Ioasaph of Berislav and Nova Kahovka, Secretary to the Primate of the
UOC Bishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi.
In the course of the liturgy the ceremonial glorification among the saints of the
Holy Hierarch Gurias (Karpov) was performed. Following the last Litia for the
ascetic served by the Primate Archbishop Ephraim of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol and Metropolitan
Lazarus of Simferopol and Crimea read out the resolution of the Holy Synod of
the UOC of April 18, 2008 (Journal of Proceedings No.30) on glorification among
the ranks of the locally venerated saints of the Diocese of Simferopol
Archbishop Gurias of Tavryisk, and read out the life of the Holy Hierarch.
Thereafter
the clergy brought the icon of the saint from the altar and placed it in the
middle of the temple. His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr was the first to venerate the icon of the
God-pleaser, and then the same did the concelebrating hierarchs, priests and
the faithful.
Maxim Sydorenko,
for ORTHODOX.ORG.UA
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