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On October 25, with the blessing of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Vicar of the Kyiv Metropolis Bishop Panteleimon of Vasylkiv performed the rite of blessing of the newly built social centre of the Orthodox Sisterhood of St. Julianne of Olshanskin the village of Stepok, the Obukhiv district. The main purpose of this establishment is holding various conferences dedicated to the social ministry of our Church. . Also the elder people's home is functioning under the patronage of the sisterhood, 27 persons have already found asylum and a possibility of participation in the liturgical services held in the church at the centre. .Present at the blessing rite also were the representatives of regional authorities and the businessmen of the region. Some of them were conferred on the church orders by Bishop Panteleimon with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr. The head of the Village Council of Malaya Olshanka Victor Kalenicnenko was conferred on the jubilee order "1020 years of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus". This order was also conferred on director of the All Ukrainian Charitable Fund "Life-giving Spring" Alla Tarasevych, orthodox writer Oksana Pepelets, and director of the firm "Ukraine" Vasyl Martynenko, and director of "Ukrinpro" Maxim Fedotov was granted the Order of the Venerable Elias of Murom. Besides, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Charity and Social Ministry archdeacon Serhiy Kosovskyi, who was also present at the blessing rite passed the medical equipment for the local medical station, for rendering medical assistance to elderly people. Finally the representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church visited the church home for the elderly, made with the assistance of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr and blessed by His Beatitude 7 years ago.

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