Metropolitan Tikhon and Patriarch Kirill Concelebrate the Divine Liturgy. Read more below…
On Saturday, December 7, the Feast of the Great Martyr Catherine of Alexandria, His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon concelebrated the Divine Liturgy with His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus. The primates were joined by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Metropolitan Dionysius, Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Joseph of Kirovograd and Novomirgordsky, Bishop Thomas of Pavlovo-Posadsky, the head of Moscow Patriarchate administrative secretariat; and Bishop Clement of Krasnoslobodsky and Temnikovsky. Representatives of Local Orthodox Churches Bishop Anthony of Moravich, representative of the Patriarch of Serbia; Archimandrite Feoktist (Dimitrov), representative of the Patriarch of Bulgaria; Archimandrite Seraphim (Shemyatovsky), representative of the Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia; and Archpriest Kakhaber Gogotishvili, representative of the Georgian Patriarchate also concelebrated at the Divine Liturgy. Also serving were Protopresbyter Vladimir Divakov, secretary to Patriarch Kirill; Archpriest Nikolai Krechetov, district dean; and Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, Deputy Chairman of the DECR, together with other local clergy. Read more here.