On April 6, 2021, on the eve of the feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, the first monastic tonsure was performed during the All-night Vigil in the main church of the Holy Annunciation Convent in the village. Andrusiev of the Rivne region. This was reported by the Information and Education Department of the UOC.
With the blessing of Metropolitan Bartholomew of Rivne and Ostroh, the monk was tonsured by Archimandrite Mikhail (Zushchenko), the head of the St. Barbarian Starokoretsky skete.
Father Mikhail congratulated all those present on the holiday, and Mother Abbess Pavel (Zaika) on the replenishment of the sisters at the monastery.
Let us remind you that Archbishop Feodosy of Cherkassy and Kanev performed tonsure at the Transfiguration Convent. Earlier, the monastic tonsure was performed in the Barsky monastery, in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, in the Rykhlovsky monastery of the Nizhyn eparchy, in the Borisoglebsky monasteries of the Izyum eparchy, in the Alexander monastery in the Odessa eparchy.