Recently, His Eminence Bishop Mykhail of Lutsk and Volyn solemnly presented a high award of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate – the Order of the Holy Great Martyr Barbara – to Tetiana Tolochko, a teacher at the Center for Christian Education of Children and Youth. Congratulating the awardee, the vladyka noted that His Holiness Patriarch Filaret is for the first time bestowing an award of this level on a Volyn woman who has made a significant contribution to the development of Ukrainian spiritual culture.
As reported by the press service of the Volyn Eparchy of the UOC KP, Tetiana Tolochko, who recently celebrated a glorious jubilee, has been the long-time leader of the Center's choir — a well-known children's creative ensemble in Volyn numbering more than 120 singers. Thanks to her inspired work, the choir's repertoire includes more than 100 works of Ukrainian and world spiritual music, patriotic and folk-ritual songs of the Christmas and Easter periods, works honoring St. Nicholas and Andrew the First-Called, Taras Shevchenko and Lesya Ukrainka, and others.