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“Ukrainian Koliadky in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” 7 signatures
1) Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine,
secular name: Serhii Petrovych Dumenko is the primate of the Orthodox Church of
Ukraine (OCU), holding the title of Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine.
2) Igor Smelyansky - director of Ukrposhta.
3) Natalia Muhina - head of philatelic community.
4) Vladislav Lisenko - Director of the Kiev Pechersk
Lavra Choir
5) General Director of the National Nature Reserve
"Kiev-Pechersk Lavra" (date of June 28, 2023)
6) Mykolai Kochubey - Artist
7) Nikita Ruslanovych Poturaev is a Ukrainian
politician, an expert in communications, political and media consulting.
People's Deputy of Ukraine, 9th term, chairman of the VRU Committee on
Humanitarian and Information Policy (since June 17, 2020).
The postal issue “Ukrainian Koliadky in the
Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” is dedicated to a historic event – the anniversary of the
first Christmas liturgy held by the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the
Assumption Cathedral of the Monastery of the Caves Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
The Assumption Cathedral and the
Church of the reverend Anthony and Theodosius of the Caves with the Refectory
Church were returned to the state of Ukraine in early 2023. The first liturgy
in the cathedral was led by Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine. He
called the service a historic moment for Ukrainians who have been striving and
dreaming about it for decades and expressed his confidence in Ukraine’s victory
in the war with russia, because: “…the truth is on the side of the Ukrainian
people, and in the truth and with the truth is God Almighty, who gives victory”.
The Christmas service at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra ended with the performance of
Ukrainian carols Koliadky.
This year, the Assumption Cathedral
celebrates its 950th anniversary. Built in 1073-1078, the cathedral
has undergone several significant reconstructions in its history until it look
on the style of Ukrainian Baroque in the early eighteenth century. In 1941, the
cathedral was destroyed by an explosion and rebuilt in 2000.
The postal issue images (created by
artist Mykolai Kochubey) tell the unique story of the main Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra
Cathedral – from its foundation to its restoration, about the monastic
traditions established by Rev. Anthony and Theodosius of the Caves and about
the return of the shrine to the Ukrainian people after many years of occupation
by moscow priests.
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