In Kryvyi Rih, UOC faithful prayerfully honored the region’s chief relic

Service at the UOC’s Transfiguration Cathedral in Kryvyi Rih. Photo: Kryvyi Rih Eparchy

On the feast day of the Turkowice Icon of the Mother of God, July 15, 2025, Metropolitan Ephraim of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol presided over the festive service in the UOC’s Transfiguration Cathedral in Kryvyi Rih, where this wonderworking image of the Most Holy Theotokos is permanently kept. This was reported by the Kryvyi Rih Eparchy’s press service.

During the Divine Liturgy, the metropolitan was concelebrated by numerous clergy of the Kryvyi Rih Eparchy.

During the service, with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry, the hierarch awarded church honors to clergy of the eparchy.

In the litanies, prayers were offered for the coming of long-awaited peace on Ukrainian soil, for the well-being of the long-suffering people, and for the repose of military and civilian victims of the war.

“On this festive day, 70 clergy, together with their Archpastor, approached the one Chalice, along with many pilgrims and worshippers who gathered in the cathedral to venerate the wonderworking Turkowice Icon of the Mother of God,” the eparchy’s press service noted.

After the liturgy, Metropolitan Ephraim, together with the assembled clergy of the Kryvyi Rih Eparchy, served a moleben before the wonderworking icon of the Queen of Heaven and led a procession around the cathedral. The main relics of the Kryvyi Rih Eparchy, kept within the Transfiguration Cathedral, took part in the procession.

At the end of the moleben, the hierarch offered prayer before the eparchy’s chief relic – the Turkowice Icon of the Mother of God.

At the conclusion of the service, the Kryvyi Rih hierarch addressed the faithful with words of instruction and gave everyone his blessing.

Earlier, the UOJ reported that in Nikopol a parishioner of the Exaltation of the Cross Church was killed by Russian shelling.

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