Tuesday, August 4, 2009

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, August 1 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Orthodox Church is commemorating St. Seraphim of Sarov, one of Russia’s most prominent monks and ascetics who lived in the 18th-19th centuries.Over 15,000 people took part in festive events dedicated to the finding of St. Seraphim’s relics, kept in the Holy Trinity St. Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent. The [...]

On August 3 His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, making pastoral and pilgrimage trip in the boundaries of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, arrived to the St. Nicholas Convent of Horodok near Rivne. His Holiness was accompanied by Deputy Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchy Archbishop Varsonofy of Saransk and Mordova, Chair of the [...]

On August 2, 2009, on the insistent demands of the state authorities of Ukraine the route of Patriarch’s tour of the dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was changed. That day in the evening His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived to the Stauropegial Holy Trinity Resurrection Convent of Korets. At …