Pochaiv Seminary holds celebrations on occasion of students' graduation
On June 10, 2025, the Pochaiv Theological Seminary held ceremonial events dedicated to the 32nd graduation of students, reports the UOC press service. 55 graduates received diplomas after the solemn service at the Dormition Cathedral of the Pochaiv Lavra.
The Divine Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral of the Pochaiv Lavra on the occasion of the graduation from the theological school was led by Metropolitan Sergiy of Ternopil and Kremenets. He was co-served by the abbot of the monastery, Metropolitan Volodymyr of Pochaiv, the rector of the PThS, Archbishop Job of Shumsk, clergy of the Ternopil Eparchy, and the brethren of the Lavra in holy orders.
After the Liturgy, a solemn awarding of diplomas to the graduates of the Pochaiv Theological Seminary took place. This year, 27 full-time graduates and 28 part-time graduates received diplomas.
The Pochaiv Theological Seminary is one of the most important centers of spiritual education of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, preparing future clergy.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that His Beatitude called on the graduates of theological schools to preach with their lives.
Read also
Penitential canon read at Zabolottia’s persecuted UOC parish
The Orthodox community of St. Elijah on Bukovyna, deprived of its church in May 2025, is serving the services of Great Lent in a renovated space adapted for prayer.
Prosecutor’s Office demands that UOC hand over to state Staryi Pochaiv church
The Ternopil regional prosecutor’s office is seeking, through the courts, to annul the registration of ownership rights to the 17th-century Holy Protection (Intercession) Church of the UOC in the village of Staryi Pochaiv.
Centuries-old crosses from Serbian graves hauled away as scrap in Croatia
Municipal services in the Croatian town of Vrbovsko removed Orthodox crosses from cemeteries under the pretext of “danger to visitors.”
Reserve replaces Lavra Caves’ saints’ nameplates with Ukrainian-language signs
Online, people have shown what new changes the National Reserve has introduced in the caves of the Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery.
First words and photos after Bishop Arseniy's release published online
The abbot of the Sviatohirsk Lavra, after a year and ten months of imprisonment, offered praise to the Most Holy Theotokos for his release.
In Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, UOC hierarch reads Great Canon near seized church
Bishop Antony performed the Great Penitential Canon together with believers near a closed church in the Cherkasy Eparchy of the UOC.