On Thursday, December, the Great Feast of the Entrance of the Mother of God into the Temple, His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill concelebrated the Divine Liturgy with His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon; His Grace, Bishop Alexander; and the clergy members of the OCA delegation at the historic 15th century Dormition Patriarchal Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin. At the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy, Metropolitan Tikhon presented a copy of the Icon of the Sitka Mother of God to Patriarch Kirill. The celebration coincided with the 97th Anniversary of the Enthronement of Saint Tikhon of Moscow in the same cathedral. Saint Tikhon served as Bishop, and later Archbishop, of the North American Diocese from 1897 to 1907.
