On July 16-17, 2024, on the 106th anniversary of the execution of the Royal Family, memorial services were held in the city of Yekaterinburg and in the monastery at Ganina Yama.
On July 16, in the so-called Tsar's Room of the Church-Monument on the Blood, at the place where the Royal Passion-Bearers and their loyal subjects were martyred, the Divine Liturgy together with Metropolitan Ekaterinburg.html">Metropolitan Evgeny of Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursk led by the bishops who arrived for the Royal Days: Bishop Roman of Rubtsovsky and Aleisky and Bishop Leontiy of Syzran and Shigonsky.
Bishop Leonty.
The Bishops were served by: head of the Protocol Service Ekaterinburg Diocese Archpriest Nikolay Tarantin; chairman of the diocesan department for relations between the Church and society and the media, senior priest of the Church Monument on the Blood, Archpriest Maxim Minyaylo; head of the diocesan missionary department, Priest Daniel Ryabinin; Priest Pavel Starkov, head of the diocesan youth department and spiritual director of the St. Simeonov Orthodox Gymnasium; Hieromonk Kornilii Zaitsev, rector of the Ekaterinburg Theological Seminary; Hieromonk Kornilii Zaitsev, head of the Office of the Diocesan Missionary Department; and Synodal Department of Religious Education and Catechesis Hieromonk Simeon (Seregin); clergy of the Ekaterinburg Diocese.
The liturgical hymns were performed by the choir of the Yekaterinburg Theological Seminary under the direction of Anastasia Mukhlynina, a graduate of the Regent's Department.
The Liturgy was traditionally celebrated with a large crowd of believers.
The sermon before Communion was delivered by Archpriest Sergius Alexeev, clergyman of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Yekaterinburg.
The sermon before Communion was delivered by Archpriest Sergius Alexeev.
After the Liturgy, Metropolitan Evgeny of Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursk greeted the bishops, clergy and pilgrims who arrived from other cities of Russia and abroad for the Tsarist Days.
At the end of the Liturgy, Metropolitan Evgeny of Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursk greeted the bishops, clergy and pilgrims who arrived from other cities of Russia and abroad for the Tsarist Days.
In the afternoon in Yekaterinburg was held the traditional Small procession along the Yekaterinburg Way of Sorrow — places that preserve the memory of the Royal Passion-Bearers. One of the central events of the Tsar's Days united more than a thousand pilgrims, who came from different parts of the country, and city residents, including Sunday school students and volunteers of the Tsar's Days. The prayer procession was led by the head of the diocesan department of religious education and catechesis, Priest Andrei Shchukin, and other priests Ekaterinburg Metropolitan Church — clergy of parochial schools. At the cross at the Shartash railway station participants read the Akathist to the Royal Passion-Bearers, after which they went in procession along the route of the arrival of the Royal Passion-Bearers to the Church-Monument on the Blood with stops for a prayer service at the church of the icon of the Mother of God «Port-Arthurskaya» and the church of the Mother of God of the Power of God. The small procession ended with a prayer service in the Church-Monument on the Blood.
On the night of July 16-17 on the square in front of the lower aisle of the Church-Monument on the Blood in Yekaterinburg took place the main event of the Royal Days — the Divine Liturgy, which was celebrated by 13 bishops: Metropolitan Vikenty of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, the head of the Central Asian Metropolitan District; Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis, representative of the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; Metropolitan Evgeny of Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursk; Metropolitan Pavel of Khanty-Mansiysk and Surgut; Metropolitan Alexy of Chelyabinsk and Miass; Bishop Theodosius of Nizhny Tagil and Nevyansk; Bishop Theognost of Serov and Krasnoturyinsk; Bishop Roman of Rubtsovsk and Aleisky; Bishop Methodius of Kamensk and Kamyshlov; Bishop Vladimir of Shadrinsk and Dalmatovo; Bishop Peter of Zlatoust and Satka; Bishop Stephen of Remezia, vicar of the Patriarch of Serbia; Bishop Leontii of Syzran and Shigon Leonty.
Bishop Peter of Zlatoust and Satka; Bishop Stephan of Remezia, vicar of the Patriarch of Serbia; Bishop Leontii of Syzran and Shigon
The hierarchs were served by a host of clergy of the Ekaterinburg and other metropolitanates.
The representative of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia archimandrite of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia archimandrite Seraphim (Shemyatovsky), representative of the Orthodox Church in America to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia protopriest Daniel Andreiuk.
A representative of the Orthodox Church in America to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Protoire Daniel Andreiuk.
The Liturgy was prayed by hegumens and abbesses, monastics who came to honor the memory of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers.
The service was attended by the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk region L.V. Babushkina, Vice-Governor of the Sverdlovsk region O.L. Chemezov, Deputy Head of the region V.A. Chaynikov.
Metropolitan Vikenty of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, who headed the Ekaterinburg diocese for 12 years, addressed the faithful before the Liturgy.
The Vice-Governor of the Sverdlovsk region O.L. Chemezov handed Metropolitan Eugene an ark with a piece of the Belt of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which will now be kept in Yekaterinburg (the medallion with a fragment of the Belt dates back to the first half of the XIX century, Italy; the relic was purchased by patrons of the arts).
Metropolitan Niphon welcomed the participants of the service and congratulated the head of the Ekaterinburg Metropolitanate on his namesake's day.
The service was attended by the chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk region L.V. Babushkina, O.L. Chemezov, deputy head of the region V.A. Chaynikov.
After the Liturgy, the bishops offered a prayer for Holy Russia.
The sermon before the Communion was delivered by the clergyman of the Ekaterinburg Theological Seminary, Priest Konstantin Korepanov. Communion of the Blessed Sacrament was made from 100 chalices.
At the end of the service, Metropolitan Eugene invoked God's blessing on the participants of the Royal procession. At about three o'clock in the morning, the procession of thousands, led by the bishops, advanced to the monastery of the Royal Passion-Bearers at Ganina Yama. The faithful covered a distance of about 21 kilometers.
The procession was accompanied by ten mobile aid groups of the Orthodox Relief Service and volunteers of the Tsar's Days.
The faithful carried the ark with a part of the Belt of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the ark with relics of 14 saints of the Ekaterinburg Metropolis.
The prayer procession ended with a prayer service to the Royal Passion-Bearers at the mine number 7.
After the service, Metropolitan Evgeny and Metropolitan Vikenty thanked the faithful for their participation in the procession.
After the service, Metropolitan Evgeny and Metropolitan Vikenty thanked the faithful for their participation in the procession.
The program of the Royal Days, which will end on July 21, can be found at link.
The program of the Royal Days, which will end on July 21, can be found at link.
From the website of the Ekaterinburg Diocese
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