On August 15, 2024, at the St. Petersburg Diocesan Administration Metropolitan Barsonofiy of St. Petersburg and Ladoga and Chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society (IPPO) S.V. Stepashin signed an agreement on cooperation.
An agreement on cooperation was signed at the St. Petersburg Diocesan Administration.
The event was attended by Hegumen Seraphim (Kravchenko), head of the IPPO pilgrimage section, Archpriest Michael Shastin, chairman of the pilgrimage service of the St. Petersburg Eparchy, and Hieromonk Nikita (Minich), director of the Pilgrim House.
Hieromonk Nikita (Minich), director of the Pilgrim House.
Agreement — the result of interaction between IPPO and the dioceses of the St. Petersburg Metropolitan Church, the basis for further cooperation.
The agreement — the result of interaction between IPPO and the dioceses of the St. Petersburg Metropolitan Church, the basis for further cooperation.
In 2023-2024, the IPPO Pilgrimage Section organized several group and individual trips: 156 people visited churches and monasteries of the St. Petersburg and Tikhvin dioceses. A trip to the City on the Neva, Alexander-Svirsky Monastery and Staroladozhsk monasteries is scheduled for October this year.
It is planned to develop new pilgrimage routes, publish materials on pilgrimage, and improve the qualifications of Orthodox Christians.
Ladykas Barsonofii presented S.V. Stepashin with a souvenir.
Vladyka Barsonofiy presented S.V. Stepashin with a commemorative souvenir.
The guest, accompanied by Father Seraphim and clerics of the diocese visited the Holy Trinity Cathedral and Annunciation Church of Alexandro-Nevsky Lavra, Nikolskoye cemetery, where a requiem liturgy was served on the grave of the founder, honorary member and secretary of the IPPO Vasily Khitrovo.
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