Monastic tonsures performed in the Lavra

A number of men have received monastic tonsures at the Holy Dormition-Kiev Caves Lavra over the past weeks. On the Thursday of the Great Canon, two riassaphore monks were tonsured as stavrophore monks with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chornobyl, the abbot of the Lavra. Archimandrite Anthony, the monastery’s spiritual […]

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 […]

Metropolitan Anthony: on the events in global Orthodoxy

Recent events in the Orthodox world cannot leave the Faithful indifferent. An engaged person must make a judgement on the situation, but even for those within the Church it is not easy to understand where the truth lies and how to respond. For those outside the Church it is much harder to find the truth. […]

Services of the feast of Transfiguration of our Lord were led by the Head of UOC

On the Transfiguration of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ of the Great Twelve Holidays, the divine services were led by the Holy Archimandrite of the Kiev-Caves Lavra, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphrius of Kiev and All Ukraine. The evening before, the Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church performed the All-Night Vigil in the Dormition […]

His Eminence Pavel Commemorated Birthday with a Prayer

On the fifty-eighth birthday and twenty-second anniversary of the episcopal consecration, the Vicegerent of the Holy Dormition Kiev-Caves Lavra, metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chornobyl prayed at the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Church of the monastery. The peculiarity of the divine services of the latter two weeks in Lavra is that the Gospels are […]

Divine services at the Lavra’s Skete Caves’ Icon of Mother of God, where the brothers’ cemetery is located

On the feast of Transfiguration of our Lord services at the Lavra were headed by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphrius

The solemn services took place in the Dormition cathedral on the feast of The Holy Transfiguration of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ (the Second “Feast of the Savior” ). All Night Vigil on the eve of the feast and the Divine Liturgy next day were led by the Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox […]

PROGRAMME of International Conference “Kiev-Pechersk Lavra – Mount Athos – Jerusalem: Unity Through the Ages”

Ukrainian Orthodox Church Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, National Kiev-Pechersky Historical and Cultural Reserve, Kiev Theological Academy and Seminary International Institute of Athos Heritage PROGRAMME International Conference “Kiev-Pechersk Lavra – Mount Athos – Jerusalem: Unity Through the Ages The conference is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the revival of monastic life in the Holy Dormition […]

The brethren of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra congratulated the Vicegerent on the occasion of Birthday

Theophany of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ