CKD: Famille Cleenewerck de Kiev | The House of Kiev | dekiev.com
CKD: Famille Cleenewerck de Kiev | The House of Kiev | dekiev.com
Qui Vicerit Dabo · To the one who conquers
Rooted in a family charter sealed in 2004 and in a heritage that reaches back to Flanders and to Saint Vladimir of Kiev, the Cleenewerck de Kiev Family Foundation is being established in Idaho to fund and carry out long-term work in faith, education, music, bioethics and medical research.
The Foundation’s grants and programs are guided by the twelve pillars that have long defined the House of Kiev: the Church and its unity, our heritage in Kiev and Flanders, education, music and culture, remembrance, and service in Africa and beyond. Its first priorities are music, education, bioethics and cancer research.
At the service of Church, tradition and the wider world
Named after the ancient city of Kiev, this “House” was formalized by a Charter to mark the convergence of ancestral and spiritual events, placed under the Providence of God. Here we present its historic documents, notable ancestors, books and resources.
His Eminence the Most Reverend Archbishop Vsevolod (Maidansky) of Scopelos was a senior bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA (Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople) and a long-time friend of Pope John Paul II, with his cathedral in Chicago. The family charter he issued to and for Laurent Cleenewerck de Kiev is a foundational document for a family with personal, ecclesiastical and ancestral roots in ancient Rus and in the Great and Holy City of Kiev.
Providentially, on the feast of Saint Vladimir of Kiev (July 15, 2024), Fr Laurent was released from the Orthodox Church in America to serve within the Archevêché des églises orthodoxes de tradition russe en Europe occidentale. Photo: with Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem (Amman, 2016).
Une famille, c’est d’abord un nom qui se transmet, mais c’est aussi et surtout une vision de la vie qui se transmet entre les générations. Le nom de famille « Cleenewerck » remonte aux Flandres et « de Kiev », qui fait aussi partie légale du nom de famille, remonte à la fois à l’affiliation ecclésiastique et à la descendance généalogique de Saint Vladimir de Kiev. Depuis 2004, la famille est structurée par une charte de famille portant le sceau de l’Archevêque Vsevolod.
« Hujus rei gratia flecto genua mea ad Patrem Domini nostri Jesu Christi, ex quo omnis paternitas in cælis et in terra nominatur… »
For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. (Ephesians 3:14-15)
