Prime-Minister of Ukraine Yuliya Tymoshenko Greeted Metropolitan Vladimir on His Name Day and Met with Patriarch Kirill
Late in the evening Yuliya Tymoshenko arrived to the residence of His Beatitude together with Yuriy Reshetnikov, chair of the State Commission on Religious Affairs.
Yuliya Tymoshenko called His Beatitude a true pastor and spiritual father of the [...]
President of Ukraine and Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Honored Memory of Heroes of Great Patriotic War and Great Famine (Holodomor) of 1932-1933.
In the park of Glory the head of the Ukrainian state Victor Yushchenko together with His Holiness the Patriarch laid flowers to the Eternal Fire at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. [...]
At the official residence of the President of Ukraine – the House of Horodetsky – the meeting of President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia began.
The central subjects of discussion were the church-state relations in Ukraine and the perspectives of development of the Orthodoxy.
At the beginning of the [...]
On the eve of commemoration of the Holy and Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir His Holiness Patriarch Kirill conducted All-Night Vigil at Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra
Concelebrating with His Holiness the Patriarch were His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kyiv and All Ukraine, members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, synaxis of Archpastors and clergy.
The liturgical service lasted [...]
The first session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church in the history of the Kyiv Caves Monastery completed
On July 27, 2009 the session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, presided over by His Holiness patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, was held at the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk [...]
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