Ukraine Greets her Primate on his Birthday
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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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