On Sunday, November 23, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church celebrated his seventy-third birthday anniversary.
On that day a great number of clergymen and faithful from many corners of Ukraine came
to the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra to greet their Primate and to pray
together with him.
On the occasion of the feast His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr in
concelebration of the synaxis of the hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox
Church served the Divine Liturgy in the Refectory
Church dedicated to Sts. Anthony and
Theodosius of the Kyiv
Caves of the Holy
Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
At the worship service the Primate ordained to the holy diaconate the
assistant of the head of the parish council of the Cathedral of the
Resurrection of Christ and his subdeacon Victor Ivashchuk.
Following the Divine Liturgy the hero of the day received congratulation of numerous
guests: clergy, politicians, public and cultural leaders and god-loving flock
at the Gallery of Arts "Lavra".
On Tuesday, November 18, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church received the President of
Ukraine Victor Yushchenko at his residence in the Holy Dormition Kyiv -Pechersk Lavra.
The head of the state greeted His beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr and offered
him an ancient icon as a gift.
On November 23, in the course of the greeting
part of the celebration of the birthday anniversary of His Beatitude
Metropolitan Volodymyr the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuliya Tymoshenko greeted
the Primate of the UOC over the phone.
On November 24, the leader of the Party of
Regions Victor Yanukovych made a visit to the Primate of the UOC.
The people's deputy presented Metropolitan Volodymyr a bunch of roses and
wished him good health and high spirits, success in his difficult work on
restoration of the moral and spiritual foundations of the society.
On the eve
of his birthday, November 22, His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr received greetings
from Archbishop Pavel
of Vyshhorod, the Superior of Lavra, who presented a suit of bishop's
vestments to the Primate, and a
magnificent bunch of red roses.
On November, 24 at the Synodal Hall at the
Metropolitan's residence His beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr received greetings
of the teachers, students and alumna of the Kyiv Theological
Academy and Seminary with
their rector - archbishop Anthony of Boryspil at the head.
Vladyka thanked the Primate of the UOC for his care and patronage of the
Theological Schools. Finally
the guests sang "many years" to the Primate.
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