{"id":54173,"date":"2021-07-28T15:29:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df.news\/?p=54173"},"modified":"2021-07-28T15:29:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:29:38","slug":"orthodox-church-primate-holds-prayer-service-on-day-of-kyivan-rus-ukraine-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2021\/07\/28\/orthodox-church-primate-holds-prayer-service-on-day-of-kyivan-rus-ukraine-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Church Primate holds prayer service on Day of Kyivan Rus-Ukraine Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine, head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, led a prayer service by the monument to the Holy Prince Volodymyr in Kyiv.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The event was part of celebrations of the 1033rd anniversary of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus-Ukraine and the day honoring the memory of the Holy Apostolic Prince Volodymyr, the Baptist of Rus, Ukrinform<\/a> reports.<\/div>\n
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Representatives of the OCU dioceses from all over Ukraine gathered on Volodymyrska Hill and walked to the Prince Volodymyr monument from St. Michael\u2019s Golden-Domed Cathedral, where the Divine Liturgy took place.<\/div>\n
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Due to health safety restrictions, no large crowds were allowed at the event.<\/p>\n

As Ukrinform reported earlier, on July 27, the OCU kicked off in Kyiv festive events on the occasion of the 1033rd anniversary of the baptism of Rus-Ukraine. An overnight vigil was held in St. Michael\u2019s Cathedral, presided over by Metropolitan Epiphanius.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate rallied its followers for a massive procession in Kyiv.<\/p>\n

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, amid coronavirus concerns, turned down the option of gathering crowds for any religious procession \u2013 the same way the church did last year.<\/p>\n

Every year on July 28, Ukraine celebrates Day of the Baptism of Rus-Ukraine. The holiday was established by the Presidential Decree of July 25, 2008.<\/p>\n

On the same day, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of Prince Volodymyr, the Baptist of Rus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine, head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, led a prayer service by the monument to the Holy Prince Volodymyr in Kyiv. The event was part of celebrations of the 1033rd anniversary of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus-Ukraine and the day honoring the memory of the Holy Apostolic Prince […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}