2020-11-30

HAMBRE

HOLODOMOR VICTIMS COMMEMORATED IN UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

Kiev, November 30, 2020

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On November 28, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holodomor, with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, memorial services were held in churches and monasteries throughout the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, “for the victims of the terrible events of one of the most tragic pages in the history of Ukraine.”

Every year on the fourth Saturday of November, on the basis of the presidential decrees of 1998 and 2007, Ukraine honors the victims of three famines—the Holodomor of 1932 to 1933, and the mass famines of 1921 to 1923 and 1946 to 1947, reports the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The victims were commemorated in a variety of services and ceremonies.

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In Severodonetsk, Bishop Irinarch of Novopskov served a memorial litiya at the chapel of the victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor, where a regional and city requiem meeting was held.

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In Nizhyn, Metropolitan Clement celebrated a nighttime Divine Liturgy, praying for the victims of the Holodomor during the litany for the departed. With his blessing, prayers were also offered in the churches and monasteries of his diocese.

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Metropolitan John of Kherson also celebrated a nighttime Divine Liturgy in Kherson, during which prayers were offered for the repose of the souls of all suffered during the difficult years of repression and a symbolic memorial candle was lit in the cathedral.

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In Voznesensk, Archbishop Alexiy served a panikhida in memory of the victims, and memorial litiyas and panikhidas were served throughout the diocese.

Metropolitan Irinei of Dnepropetrovsk served a memorial litiya in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Dnieper, after which he and the concelebrating clergy took part in a flower-laying ceremony at the memorial cross in the local park.

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Metropolitan Nikodim of Zhytomyr celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the village of Vertokievka and a memorial litiya at the memorial cross erected next to the church.

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Archbishop Theodosy of Cherkasy served a memorial service at the monument to the victims of the Holodomor in the Cathedral Park. A memorial event was held in which participants lit candles in honor of the victims.

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With the blessing of Archbishop Bogolep of Alexandria, emorial services for the victims were held in all churches and monasteries of the Diocese of Alexandria.

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With the blessing of Archbishop Nathanael of Volyn, the clergy of the diocese served a memorial litiya at the monument to the victims of political repression in Lutsk.

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In the Zaporozhye Diocese, flower-laying ceremonies were held at the memorial plaques in Kamensk-Dneprovsk. A memorial service was also served in the city park.

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