September 27, 2014, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill performed the rite of consecration of the temple of the great martyr Clement, Pope of Rome, and presided the Divine Liturgy in the newly consecrated church. His Holiness was joined by: Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk , chairman of the Department for External Church Relations , Metropolitan Jonah ( Orthodox Church in America ), Metropolitan Arseny of Istra , the first Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in Moscow, Ivanovo-Voznesensky Metropolitan and Vichugsky Joseph , Bishop of Balti and Falesti Markell ; Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk , Head of the Administrative Secretariat of the Moscow Patriarchate, Bishop Kokshetauskiy and Akmola Serapion , Bishop Tikhon of Ishim and Aromashevsky ; Archpriest Vladimir Divakov , secretary of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Moscow; Archpriest Nikolai Krechetov, dean of the Moscow River district of Moscow; Archpriest Leonid Kalinin, rector of the Church of the Holy Martyr Clement, Pope of Rome; Abbot Orestes (Goyanyuk), the governor of the Crimean Clement Inkerman Monastery; clergy of Moscow.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 22:01:10 +0000