The funeral of Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine Volodymyr will take place on the first day of the week on the same day he will be buried on Bratsk a cemetery on the square of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in Kiev, informs the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) according to the results of the taken place session of the Holy Synod.

Metropolitan Volodymyr, was the Primate of the UOC since 1992, died on the first day weekend early in the morning on the 79 th year of a life after long illness. Farewell ceremony with the head of the UOC of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. On Sunday a divine Liturgy at the Novodevichy convent of the capital of Russia and Also the memorial service for Metropolitan Patriarch Kirill.

" The funeral of his Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr will be made tomorrow, July 7, on the square before the Cathedral of the Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, and the burial - at the monastery brethren cemetery near the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God ", - is informed in the report.

It is also said that after the funeral of Metropolitan Volodymyr of the Holy Synod of the UOC will continue its work.

Ukraine currently operates the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is a self-governing Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, and unrecognized by the world Orthodox Church - Kyivan Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

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