Metropolitan Volodymyr Is In Stable Condition After Operation

The Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan) has been operated on in connection with his Parkinson’s disease and is now coming to himself in one of the Kyiv hospitals.

The Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan) has been operated on in connection with his Parkinson’s disease and is now coming to himself in one of the Kyiv hospitals. So reported in the evening of 3 November to КP in Ukraine his Secretary, Archbishop Oleksandr (Drabynko) of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vyshnevsk. The hospital where the hierarch stays is not named. So reported Credo.ru.

According to Archbishop Oleksandr, the primate was successfully operated on by Ukrainian doctors on 2 November.

In the late afternoon of 3 November, the hi erarch regained consciousness and began to communicate. But, according to the archbishop, he is still in intensive care and no visitors are allowed.

Archbishop Oleksandr called any rumours about the metropolitan’s death unethical. He also said that extreme unction was administered to the hierarch, which is done not only to dying but also to very sick people. The sacrament was administered by the Superior of the Kyiv Cave Monastery, Metropolitan Pavlo (Lebid) of Vyshhorod and Chornobyl and Archbishop Oleksandr (Drabynko).

According to the archbishop, “the doctors state that the condition of Blessed Metropolitan Volodymyr as of today is very serious but stable.”