{"id":1372459,"date":"2026-03-22T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/kyiv-bids-farewell-to-patriarch-filaret-funeral-procession-passes-through-the-center-of-the-capital\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:13:07","slug":"kyiv-bids-farewell-to-patriarch-filaret-funeral-procession-passes-through-the-center-of-the-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/kyiv-bids-farewell-to-patriarch-filaret-funeral-procession-passes-through-the-center-of-the-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv bids farewell to Patriarch Filaret: funeral procession passes through the center of the capital"},"content":{"rendered":"

A farewell ceremony for the emeritus patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus’-Ukraine, Filaret, is being held in Kyiv on March 22. The funeral procession passed through the city center, and the burial will take place in St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by “Social”<\/a> .<\/p>\n

In the morning, a funeral liturgy was held at the St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, led by the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphany. Hundreds of people came to bid farewell to the church hierarch.<\/p>\n

After the service, the funeral procession set off from the St. Michael’s Monastery through Sophia Square to St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral. Priests who arrived from different regions of Ukraine formed a corridor along the route.<\/p>\n

Several thousand people joined the funeral procession. The funeral will be completed in the Volodymyr Cathedral and the burial will be held in accordance with Filaret’s spiritual will.<\/p>\n

\nhttps:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-22-11.48.49_1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

It was previously reported that on Friday, March 20, the Patriarch Emeritus of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Filaret, passed away<\/a> . He was 97 years old.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, the fifth President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, said that Patriarch Filaret was a great Ukrainian and forever entered the history of our state.<\/a><\/p>\n

Also follow \u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on Facebook<\/a> , X<\/a> , Telegram<\/a> , and Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A farewell ceremony for the emeritus patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus’-Ukraine, Filaret, is being held in Kyiv on March 22. The funeral procession passed through the city center, and the burial will take place in St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral. This is reported by “Social” . In the morning, a funeral liturgy was held at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1372451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76878],"class_list":["post-1372459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}