Orthodox believers celebrate Trinity Sunday

23/5/2010

About 3,000 Orthodox believers attended the divine service in the Assumption cathedral of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius on the occasion of Trinity Sunday. They were blessed by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. In his speech Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople stressed the greatness of St. Sergius, the founder of this spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church and the important role of Constantinople patriarchs for the life of the monastery.

The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is the most important Russian monastery and the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery is situated in the town of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 km to the north-east from Moscow.

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