U.P.Ts.M.P. CONDUCTS
FIRST MASS BAPTISM
OF GYPSY CHILDREN IN MUKACHEVO
Religiia
v Ukraine, 1 October 2019
On 22 September, with the
blessing of
Metropolitan of Mukachevo and Uzhgorod Feodor of the UPTsMP and
on the
initiative of the chairman of the youth department of the
diocese,
Archimandrite Agapit, and also of a priest of the diocese, the
rector of the
Holy Trinity church in Mukachevo, Archpriest Yaroslav Popovich,
the baptism of
a group of children who live in the Roma (Gypsy) community, a
local national
minority, was conducted, Religiia v Ukraine reports, citing
Mukachevo.net.
This was practically the
first time in
the history of national minorities that a mass baptism was
conducted in
accordance with the canons of the Orthodox church.
After the conclusion of
the sacrament,
each of the newly baptized received a blessing and a pectoral
cross, and the
families of the settlement received an icon of the Mother of God
as a gift.
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