Funeral service held in Kyiv monastery for hierodeacon’s son killed at front

The funeral service for a fallen soldier at the St. Jonas Monastery. Photo: Archbishop Jonah’s Facebook page

At Kyiv's St. Jonas Monastery, Archbishop Jonah of Obukhiv presided over the funeral service for the warrior Heorhii, the son of Hierodeacon Mitrofan, the hierarch reported on his Facebook page.

Heorhii served in the Azov Regiment. “It is a terrible thing when a father has to bury his son,” Archbishop Jonah wrote.

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