UOC organizes working group to establish parish hospitals

His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry. Photo: news.church.ua

On August 17, 2020, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at its meeting, which took place at the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv and All Ukraine, organized a working group to open parish hospitals (outpatient clinics), reports the UOC Information and Education Department.

As a result of the meeting, the bishops decided to create a working group to study the possibility of opening and operating parish hospitals (outpatient clinics).

As the UOJ reported, a meeting of the Holy Synod of the UOC was held at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

 

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