The vicar of the Kyiv Metropolis, Bishop Victor (Kotsaba) of Baryshivsky, announced that representatives of all 53 dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church would arrive at the Great Procession in Kyiv, writes the UOJ.

“People are already coming from different regions of our country,” the hierarch said. “Of all the dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – we have 53 of them – there will be representatives who will travel by different means of transport to take part in the procession.”

Bishop Viktor recalled that today at 13:00 on Volodymyr`s Hill a prayer service will be held with the participation of numerous episcopates and thousands of believers, which will be led by the Primate of the UOC, His Beatitude Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Onuphry, and “immediately after that we will all go together to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.”

He also recalled that the Great Religious Procession of the UOC, timed to coincide with the celebration of the Baptism of Rus, has already become traditional, and “only last year was an exception due to the pandemic.”