Сlergy of Kamenka eparchy express support for UOC Primate
A general clergy meeting of the Kamenka eparchy
On January 3, 2019, a general clergy meeting under the chairmanship of His Eminence Archbishop Vladimir of Kamenka and Tsarichanka was held in the Kamenka eparchy, reports the press service of the eparchy.
In addition to reporting on the life of the eparchy in 2018, the clergy, headed by Abp. Vladimir, unanimously expressed their loyalty and devotion to the canonical Ukrainian Church and support for its Primate, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine.
In closing, Abp. Vladimir called on all the faithful of the UOC to be courageous, not to give up, and to rally around their head, Met. Onufry.
The same support for the canonical Church and Met. Onufry has also been expressed by the eparchies of Volyn, Konotop-Glukhov, Dzhankoi, Mogilev-Podolsky, Uman, Ovruch, Berdiansk, Nikolaev, Nezhin, Novaya Kakhova, Izium, Chernigov and Novgorod-Siversk, Kirovograd, Zhitomir, Lugansk, Mukachevo, Alexandria, Zaporozhye, Kharkov, Voznesensk, Tulchin, Rovno, Kherson, Severodonetsk, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Krivoy Rog, Kamenka, Poltava, and the clergy of the city of Vinnitsa and of the Bar Deanery of the Vinnitsa eparchy.
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