His Holiness Patriarch Kirill Officiates at Divine Liturgy at Christ the Savior Cathedral During the Celebration of the Fifth Anniversary of the…

On May 20, 2012, the Sixth Sunday of Pascha and the Sunday of the Blind Man, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia officiated at Divine Liturgy, marking the fifth anniversary of the reunification of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Fatherland and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. He was joined in the service by a delegation from ROCOR. Participating in the service were: His Eminence Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutitsa and Kolomensk; His Eminence Metropolitan Varsonofy of Saransk and Mordva, Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate; His Eminence Metropolitan Ilarion of Volokolamsk, President of the Department of External Church Relations; His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia; His Eminence Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany, Vice President of the Synod of Bishops of ROCOR; His Eminence Archbishop Feofan of Berlin and Germany of the Moscow Patriarchate; His Eminence Archbishop Grigory of Mozhaisk; His Eminence Archbishop Arseny of Istrina, First Vicar to Moscow of His Holiness; His Eminence Archbishop Innokenty of Vilnius and Lithuania; His Eminence Archbishop Evgeny of Verey, Chairman of the Scholarly Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church; His Eminence Archbishop Michael of Geneva and Western Europe; His Eminence Archbishop Justinian of Naro-Fominsk, Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA; His Eminence Archbishop Feognost of Sergiev Posad, Chairman of the Synodal Department of Monasteries and Monasticism and Prior of Holy Trinity-St Sergius Lavra; His Eminence Archbishop Mark of Egorievsk, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administration for Institutions Abroad; His Grace Bishop Feofilakt of Dmitrov; His Grace Bishop Tikhon of Vidnovsk; His Grace Bishop Ignaty of Bronnitsk, President of the Synodal Youth Department; His Grace Bishop Roman of Serpukhov; His Grace Bishop Sergy of Solnechnogorsk, Head of the Administrative Secretariat of the Moscow Patriarchate; His Grace Bishop Savva of Voskresensk, Prior of Novospassky Stavropighial Monastery; His Grace Bishop Nikolai of Blashikhinsk; Protopriest Vladimir Divakov, Secretary of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia on Moscow Affairs; Protopriest Nikolai Balashov, Vice President of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate; Protopriest Mikhail Ryazantsev, Senior Priest of Christ the Savior Cathedral; priors of stavropighial monasteries; clergy members of the delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and other clergymen of Moscow