Prymiske, July 23, 2019
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The ruling Hierarch of the Krivoy Rog Diocese, Metropolitan Ephraim (Kytsai), consecrated a new church in the village of Prymiske, of the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk Province, in southern Ukraine.
On July 23, 2019, the Feast Day of the Venerable Anthony of the Kiev Caves, Metropolitan Ephraim visited the village to consecrate the newly built church, as the Union of Orthodox Journalists reports.
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Metropolitan Ephraim served the Liturgy with the Dean of the Nikopol Deanery, Archpriest Nikolai Marushchak, the dean of the Pokrovsky Deanery, Archpriest Volodymyr Kachan, and other invited clergy.
During the Little Entrance, with the blessing of the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, Metropolitan Ephraim awarded the rector of the church, Archpriest Gennady Erokhin, a pectoral cross with decorations, for his zealous pastoral labors, and on the occasion of the consecration of the church.
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After the Liturgy, a moleben was served to St. Anthony of the Kiev Caves, who together with St. Theodosius of the Caves is regarded as the father of Russian monasticism.
When the services concluded, the metropolitan addressed the many parishioners with his archpastoral greetings, and thanked the rector of the church, Fr. Gennady, for his zealous and caring ministry. Fr. Gennady reciprocated with his gratitude to the hierarch for his holy prayers.
Last month, the Union of Orthodox Journalists reported that a church to St. John the Russian was just consecrated in the same, growing diocese.
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