Patriarch Kirill to visit Belarus on June 4-6
June 3, Moscow /Eduard Pivovar – BELTA/. Patriarch Kirill will visit Belarus on June 4-6, BelTA informs.
“On June 4-6, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will make a primatial visit to the Belarusian Orthodox Church. The visit is timed to coincide with the celebration of the 1030th anniversary of Orthodoxy in the Belarusian lands and in the cities of the Polotsk diocese,” – unexpectedly in the case.
On June 4, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church will take part in the wreath-laying ceremony at the Victory Monument in Minsk. Next, Vladyka will lay flowers at the monument to the First Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, Metropolitan Filaret (Vakhromeev) and lead the All-Night Vigil Service at the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Minsk.
“June 5, on the 7th week after Easter, of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council, the day of memory of St. Euphrosyne, Abbess of Polotsk, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord of the Spaso-Evfrosinevsky Convent of the Polotsk Vitebsk Region. received the entire Belarusian episcopate , as well as the meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church,” the Moscow Patriarchate informed.
“As part of the visit, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia is scheduled to meet with President Alexander Lukashenko on June 6,” the Moscow Patriarchate added.