The Information and Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, citing eparchial press services, reported that on 9 June 2025, the Day of the Holy Spirit, the lower church of the Holy Trinity cathedral of a convent in the Zhytomyr region, dedicated to the Venerable Anthony and Theodosius of the Caves, was consecrated. The house is the Holy Mandylion Protection Convent in the village of Vilkha.
According to the report, the altar of the lower church was consecrated by Metropolitan Nykodym of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynskyi, concelebrated by Archbishop Serhii of Tulchyn and Bratslav and numerous clergy.
The report says that after the consecration the Divine Liturgy was served in the church, and that memorial prayers were offered at it for the founder and builder of the convent, a schema-archimandrite who had reposed a year earlier. The report adds that a prayer for the repose of his soul was also offered at his grave.
At the end of the service, according to the report, Metropolitan Nykodym congratulated the convent's superior, Abbess Seraphima (Meleshchuk), the sisters of the convent and all the faithful and pilgrims on the feast and on the consecration of one more church in the convent.
Sources: Information and Education Department of the UOC, 10 June 2025; Religious Pravda, 12 June 2025.
