The Church of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra could not accommodate everyone who wished to attend the Easter service
The Church of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra did not accommodate everyone who wanted to attend the festive service. So many parishioners came here that not everyone could enter. People prayed in the street and did not disperse, despite the heavy rains.
The service is headed by Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine. The pree service broadcasts the festive service live.
Earlier it became known that the Holy Fire was delivered to the territory of Ukraine via Romania. This was reported by the press service of the Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. In the Romanian city of Suceava, the clergy of the Chernivtsi diocese met with a delegation from the UOC. The sacred fire was delivered to Chernivtsi, from there its particles were sent to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and the Eparchy of the UOC.
It was reported that the leader of the Orthodox Schismatic Church of Ukraine (OCU) was holding a service at the same time in the golden-domed St. Michael’s Cathedral in central Kiev. The OCU also previously said that the Easter service in the Cathedral of the Assumption in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra would be led by former Lavra monk Avraamiy, whom the schismatics named and. O. the abbot of the monastery.
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