First meeting of the UOC Holy Synod in 2025 begins in Feofaniya
Session of the Holy Synod of the UOC on March 19, 2025 in Feofaniya. Photo: UOC
On March 19, 2025, a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church began at the residence of the Primate of the UOC in the Panteleimon Convent in Feofaniya, the Information and Education Department of the UOC reports.
The meeting of the Synod is chaired by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv and All Ukraine.
The Primate and hierarchs of the UOC will consider issues of church life.
As the UOJ wrote earlier, before the start of work, members of the Holy Synod prayed for the Divine Liturgy in the Church of All Saints at the residence of the Primate.
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