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News | 15-02-07 Hierarchical Consecration at Christ the Savior Cathedral

On Thursday, February 15, 2007, the Feast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple, Archimandrite Zacchaeus, Representative of the Orthodox Church in America to the Moscow Patriarchate, by invitation of Bishop-Elect Sergei (Chashin) concelebrated the Divine Liturgy at Christ the Savior Cathedral with His Holiness, Patriarch ALEKSY II of Moscow and All Russia during which Archimandrite Sergei was consecrated to be Bishop of Usurisk and Vicar of the Diocese of Vladivostok.

Also concelebrating with His Holiness, Patriarch ALEKSY were Metropolitan JUVENALY of Krutists and Kolomna; Metropolitan KLIMENT of Kaluga and Borovsk and Chancellor of the Russian Orthodox Church; Archbishop ALEKSANDR of Kostroma; Archbishop ARSENY of Istra and other hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church. In prayerful memory of this joyous occasion, Archimandrite Zacchaeus presented the newly consecrated Bishop Sergei with an icon of his heavenly patron - the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh.



News | 15-02-07 Hierarchical Consecration at Christ the Savior Cathedral
News | 15-02-07 Hierarchical Consecration at Christ the Savior Cathedral
News | 15-02-07 Hierarchical Consecration at Christ the Savior Cathedral
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