In its seventh year, OCU holds the first meeting of Monastic Commission
Members of the newly established Monastic Commission of the OCU. May 5, 2025 Photo: archangel.kiev.ua
On May 5, 2025, the first meeting of the newly created Synodal Commission on Monasteries and Monasticism of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) took place in Kyiv. This was reported on the website of the OCU’s Stavropegial Parish of the Myrrh-Bearing Women.
It is stated that the first session held in the seventh year of the Dumenko marks “the beginning of a new stage in the life of the monasteries”.
According to the website, about a dozen representatives from the “leading monasteries” of the OCU gathered at the St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in the capital to discuss “new directions in the development of monastic life”.
The commission members identified “promising areas for future work,” particularly “the preservation and development of the traditions of Ukrainian monasticism”.
As earlier reported by the UOJ, the OCU urged not to treat monasticism like a "sacred relic".
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