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February 28, 2011
Moscow: Bishop Jerome of Manhattan celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Church of St. Nicholas at St. Tikhon’s Theological Institute

 

With the blessing of His Holiness Kyrill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, and at the invitation of Archpriest Vladimir Vorobiev, Dean of St. Tikhon’s Theological Institute in Moscow, on Sunday, January 30, His Grace Jerome, Bishop of Manhattan and vicar of the Eastern American Diocese, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Institute’s Church of St. Nicholas in Kuznetskaya.

 

His Grace was greeted with the peal of bells, and the Liturgy proceeded in triumphal fashion, to the singing of two choirs and with the concelebration of a multitude of Muscovite clergy. Upon completion of the Liturgy, Bishop Jerome delivered an uplifting sermon, and then greeted the sister of the reposed Bishop Daniel (Alexandrow), Marya Borisovna, who was praying in church, presenting her with one of the ever-memorable Bishop’s recently restored panagias.

 

Bishop Jerome of Manhattan was one of only three hierarchs to receive a blessing from His Holiness to perform the divine services in Moscow during the convocation of the Sobor of Bishops. Also receiving blessings to serve were Their Eminences, Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad (who served in St. Daniel’s Monastery), and Archbishop Mark of Berlin, Germany, and Great Britain (who served at Holy Resurrection Church in Sokolniki).

 

Media Office of the Eastern American Diocese