Yesterday evening in Kyiv, at the age of 72, Metropolitan Yakiv of the Lutsk and Volyn Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, Vladika Yakiv, died. As a correspondent of ULutsk InvestmentovohoF was told at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Lutsk, Vladika Yakiv had been feeling unwell recently. That is why he went to Kyiv for treatment. The funeral will take place on Saturday, March 20, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Lutsk. The liturgy will begin at 09.00. Metropolitans from all over Ukraine, as well as Patriarch Filaret himself, will come to see Yakiv off on his final journey.
Reference: Vladika Yakiv was born on 05.10.1931 in a peasant family. 1952-1955 - served in the army; in 1955 he became a novice of the Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavra. In 1957-1962 he studied at the Leningrad Theological Seminary. 29.10.1958 - tonsured into monasticism. 04.12.1958 - ordained to the rank of hierodeacon by Archbishop Palladius of Lviv and Ternopil. In November 1961 - ordained to the rank of hieromonk by Metropolitan Guriy of Leningrad and Ladoga. 1962-1966 - study at the Leningrad Theological Academy; received the degree of candidate of theology for the work "Contemplative and Active Life According to the Teaching of the Holy Ascetics" (1966). In 1969 - elevated to the rank of hegumen. 08.08.1974 - appointed by Patriarch Pimen as vicar of the Pochaiv Lavra with elevation to the rank of archimandrite. 1976 - awarded the right to wear a second cross with adornments. 1983 - appointed spiritual father of the Krasnohirsk Women's Monastery in the city of Zolotonosha, Cherkasy Oblast. From 04.1985 - rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Cherkasy, acting dean of the Cherkasy district and spiritual father of the Kyiv Intercession Women's Monastery. From 12.1990 - Bishop of Pochaiv, vicar of the Ternopil Eparchy and at the same time vicar of the Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavra (13.12.1990 - the nomination was performed by Metropolitan Filaret of Kyiv and Galicia, Bishops Ionafan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Vasyl of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv, and Hlib of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia). 01.1992 - temporarily entrusted with the administration of the Ternopil Eparchy. From 06.1992 - head of the Ternopil Eparchy and vicar of the Pochaiv Lavra. 12.1993 - temporarily appointed to administer the Vinnytsia Eparchy. In January 1995, Yakiv was appointed Metropolitan of the Lutsk and Volyn Eparchy Awards: Order "For Merit" III degree (09.1999). Orders of the Jerusalem and Romanian Orthodox Churches. Order of St. Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Volodymyr the Great II degree (01.1999, UOC KP).