The first seminarians began their school year at the Kyivan spiritual seminary of the Three Sanctifiers of the UGCC with a Divine Liturgy, which was celebrated on Sunday in Kyiv, in the Church of the Annunciation of the Holy Mother of God near the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ.

The liturgy was led by Bishop Joseph (Milyan), auxiliary bishop of Kyivan Archeparchy, in concelebration with Bishop Stephan (Meniok), Exarch of Donetsk-Kharkiv, Bishop Vasyl (Ivasyuk), Exarch of Odesa-Crimea, and Bishop Josaphat (Govera), Exarch of Lutsk, and the priest teachers of the newly created educational institution of the church.