On June 10, 2024, the day of the memory of St. Gerontius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1489), Chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism, Vicar of the Donskiy Stavropigial Monastery in Moscow Metropolitan Feognost of Kashir celebrated Matins and the Divine Liturgy in the Patriarchal Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.
Metropolitan Feognost of Kashir celebrated Matins and the Divine Liturgy in the Patriarchal Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.
His Eminence was served by the Secretary of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia for Moscow, Protopresbyter Vladimir Divakov, the sacristan of the Patriarchal Dormition Cathedral and the churches of the Moscow Kremlin, Archpriest Vyacheslav Shestakov, the rector of the Patriarchal suburbs of the churches in Zaryadye in Moscow, and the clergy of Moscow.
His Eminence was accompanied by the clergy of Moscow.
The liturgical hymns were performed by the choir of the Donskoy Monastery.
At the end of the Liturgy, the bishop celebrated a glorification at the tomb with the relics of St. Gerontius.
Metropolitan Theognostos addressed the audience with an archpastoral word.
Afterwards, Metropolitan Theognostos made an archpastoral address.
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