St Volodymyr's Cathedral

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St. Volodymyr's Cathedral
Cобор святого рівноапостольного великого князя Володимира
Володимирський собор, вид зі сторони входу.jpg
Front view of St. Volodymyr's Cathedral
LocationKyiv
CountryUkraine
DenominationOrthodox Church of Ukraine
History
Founded1896
DedicationSaint Volodymyr
Architecture
Architect(s)Alexander Beretti
Styleneo-Byzantine
Groundbreaking1862
Completed1882

St Volodymyr's Cathedral (Ukrainian: Володимирський собор) is a cathedral in the centre of Kyiv. It serves as the mother cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate.

Its ownership is debated between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), two major Eastern Orthodox churches in Ukraine (see History of Christianity in Ukraine).

History and description[]

Interior view of the cathedral

The entrance door is adorned with relief bronze sculptures of St. Olga (Princess Olga of Kyiv) by sculptor and St. Vladimir (sculptor H. Zaieman) against a blue background. The iconostasis is carved from the white marble brought from Carrara. The cathedral was completed in 1882, however, the paintings were fully completed only in 1896.[1]

St. Volodymyr's Cathedral converted to an anti-religious museum in the early 1920s

During the Soviet period, the cathedral narrowly escaped demolition, but not closure. Until the Second World War it served as a museum of religion and atheism. The relics of Saint Barbara, a martyr of the 3rd century, were transferred to St. Volodymyr's from the St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery before it was destroyed by the Bolsheviks,[2] and have remained there since.

Since the end of World War II and up until 1990 the cathedral was the mother church of the Ukrainian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). In 1990, when the Kiev Metropolitan's see of ROC was restyled as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, formally fully autonomous but remaining under the Patriarch of Moscow, the St. Volodymyr's remained the Mother Cathedral of the newly established Ukrainian Church.[citation needed]

Upon the arrival of a new canonical leader of Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Volodymyr (Viktor Sabodan), elected at the Kharkiv sinod, where Filaret was ousted from his position as head of that church, Volodymyr and several thousand believers who gathered to meet him, encountered a heavily guarded cathedral surrounded by riot police and UNA - UNSO paramilitary members which barricaded themselves in the church.[3][4]

Works by Viktor Vasnetsov in the Cathedral[]

  • Russian Bishops

  • The Temptation

  • The Baptism of Kyivans.

  • Baptism of Saint Vladimir

  • Icon of Saint Olga, later destroyed by the bolsheviks

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-09-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2005-11-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Автокефалисткие расколы на Украине". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16.
  4. ^ "Дмитрий Корчинский. Война в толпе". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20.

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