02.05, [11:29] // Press-releases // UGCC News
 On May 3-4, 2008, at the Lavra [Major Monastery] of the Holy Dormition in Univ on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the renewal of Studite monastic life, solemn celebrations will take place. In addition to this jubilee, on these days Blessed Archimandrite Klymentiy (Sheptytsky) will be honored. An important event will be the granting of stauropegion status to the Lavra of the Holy Dormition in Univ.
As part of the celebration, on Saturday May 3 at the conference hall of the Lviv Palace of Art (Kopernika Str., 17) at 15.00 a scholarly conference will start. The following lectures will be given: “Blessed Martyr Klymentiy as a model of holiness” (lecturer, Fr. Borys Gudziak, Ph.D.); “Memories of Fr. Klymentiy” (Mr. Adam Daniel Rotfeld); “Blessed Archimandrite Klymentiy and the Sheptytsky family” (Dr. Andriy Sheptytsky); “The role of Blessed Martyr Klementiy in the renewal of Studite monasticism” (Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna)); “Father Klementiy as a righteous of the nations” (Mrs. Olha Fadeyeva). At the same time a movie will be shown about Blessed Martyr Klymentiy. The conference will finish with a performance of the Axios choir. Then at 18.00 in the Church of Saint Michael , Great Vespers with litany will be celebrated.
On Sunday May 4 in the village of Univ (Peremyshlyany district, Lviv region) at 10.00, a pontifical Divine Liturgy which will be led by His Beatitude Lubomyr will start. During the Liturgy the decree about granting the Lavra of the Holy Dormition in Univ the status of stauropegion will be proclaimed. At 12.00 the ceremonial unveiling of a memorial tablet in honor of Blessed Archimandrite Klymentiy (Sheptytsky) will be held. Then an exhibition of archival photographs will be viewed..
A stauropegial monastery (monasterium stauropegiaceum), in other words, under patriarchal jurisdiction (monasterium iuris patriarchalis), is a monastery which is subject directly to the patriarch (can. 434 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches). The CCEC distinguishes 3 types of jurisdictional status of monasteries (can. 434): a) papal, b) patriarchal, c) episcopal. Consequently, granting the Lavra of the Holy Dormition in Univ the status of stauropegion means raising it to patriarchal status.
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