“Bishop” of Mukachevo and Carpathian Viktor Bed served a litiya for the “prophet and righteous” Ukrainian atheist poet Ivan Franko on the 165th anniversary of his birth, according to the website of the Mukachevo-Carpathian diocese of the OCU.

“On August 27, 2021, His Grace Victor Bed, Bishop of Mukachevo and Carpathian, <…> served a memorial litia for a Ukrainian political, public and cultural figure, a fighter for the national and state independence of the Ukrainian nation in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries. century, scientist, thinker, writer, poet, doctor of philosophy, prophet of the Ukrainian nation and righteous Ivan Yakovlevich Franko, ”writes the website of the diocese.