The liturgy on the occasion of the feast of the Epiphany will be performed by the head of the OCU, Metropolitan Epiphany, in the Holy Dormition Cathedral. This will be the second service of the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
The press service of OCU informs about this.
The liturgy will be held on January 19, 2023 in the Assumption Cathedral at 9:00 a.m.
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine received the appropriate permission from the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, and a corresponding agreement was signed with the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Reserve.
For the first time, the service of the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra was held on January 7, 2023.
Before the New Year, the "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra" reserve informed the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate that, as of January 1, it was no longer renewing the contract with it for the use of the Dormition Cathedral and the Tabernacle Church in the Upper Lavra.