On Athos deceased the oldest hegumen of the Holy Mount who'd devoted his life to God and people
On 4 July, on the 101 year deceased the oldest hegumen of the Russian Saint Panteleimon monastery on Athos, schema-archimandrite Jeremy (Alehin). It is reported by the UOC Information-Awareness Department.
Due to the decease of the elderly monk of Holy Mt. Athos, His Beatitude Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine Onuphriy expressed his condolences to the monastery’s brethren.
“The whole life of the deceased starets was devoted to serving God and people. Christ has conquered death and hell, that’s why there is no death for the soul that lives in God. During his many-year toil in the vineyards of the Lord the hegumen strove with zeal and effort to fulfill all kinds of obedience assigned to him by the Hierarchy,” the condolences say.
Besides, His Beatitude blessed to offer prayers for the rest of the soul of newly departed Hegumen – schema-archimandrite Jeremy – in all dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
It will be reminded, on October 22 last year Archimandrite Jeremy was 100 years old. Upon blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphriy the jubilee-monk was awarded the UOC Order of the 1st Degree of the Venerables Anthony and Theodosius of the Kiev Caves. This year the Ukrainian Orthodox Church together with the Holy Mount brethren celebrated a 1000 anniversary of the Russian monkhood on Athos. During these festivities a church in the honor of Venerable Anthony of the Kiev Caves was sanctifies, whereas His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphriy and all members of the UOC delegation receives orders of St. Great Martyr Panteleimon from the holy monk’s hands.
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