The Head of UOC led services on Sunday of Adoration of Holy Cross

When addressing the faithful during the Liturgy on the Third Sunday of Great Lent, Adoration of the Holy Cross, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy called for praying so that the Lord would let the brotherhood of the Kyiv Caves Lavra stay in the holy monastery and continue their feat of prayer therein. The Information and Education […]

Commentary of the DECR of the UOC concerning the address of the Primate of the OCU to the monks of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra

On March 18, 2023, the Primate of the OCU Epiphany (Dumenko) addressed the monks of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra of the UOC with an appeal to join the OCU. In this regard, we consider it necessary to inform the following. We remind here that the monks of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra responded to similar statements of Epiphany […]

First Photos of the Lavra after its’ Opening and in 2023

We offer the archive photography materials dated from 1988 for the attention of all readers of the official website of the Holy Dormition Kiev-Caves Lavra, which show the buildings of the monastery before and after the reconstruction. In the year of the Lavra opening, the buildings of the Holy Caves monastery were passed to the […]

Vicegerent and the brethren of the Lavra recorded a video with an appeal to the people and the officials of Ukraine

On March 10th, the letter of the National Kyiv-Caves Lavra Preserve has been promulgated towards the Kyiv-Caves Monastery with the demand to the monks to move out of the walls of the Orthodox sanctuary. With regard to the circumstances around the Kyiv-Caves Monastery, the Vicegerent and the brethren of the Kyiv-Caves Lavra turned to the […]