Ascension Liturgy at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral with Metropolitan Herman to be webcast

The Divine Liturgy for the Great Feast of the Ascension of the Lord, celebrated by His Beatitude, Metropolitan Herman, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, will be broadcast live via internet.

The broadcast will be available by logging on to http://www.xxc.ru/trans/index.htm at 1:00 a.m. EDT.

On June 1, Metropolitan Herman began an official one-week visit to the Russian Orthodox Church, the first since his election as Primate in July 2002, at the invitation of His Holiness, Patriarch Aleksy II of Moscow.

Photographs of Metropolitan Herman’s visit will be posted on the OCA web site at http://www.oca.org in the near future.

For further information contact the Very Rev. John Matusiak, OCA Communications Director, at 630/668-3071 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).