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April 15, 2011
Southbury, CT: Bishop Jerome celebrated the Divine Liturgy in St. Sergius Chapel in Churaevka

 

On Saturday, April 2, Eastern American Diocesan vicar Bishop Jerome of Manhattan celebrated the Divine Liturgy in St. Sergius Chapel in Churaevka, once a Soviet-era community of Russian intelligentsia in Southbury, CT.

 

On Saturday morning, chapel rector Priest Constantine Sermyanko performed a blessing of the water; when His Grace arrived from Synod, the greeting of the bishop was held, and the Divine Liturgy began. Bishop Jerome’s service was the first hierarchal Liturgy served in the chapel. His Grace was co-served by Archpriest Andrei Semyanko (rector of the Church of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple in Stratford, CT) and Fr. Constantine.

 

Also praying at the Liturgy were devotees of one of Southbury’s famous former residents – author and noted Russian émigré figure George D. Grebenstchikoff, in honor of whose novel "Churaevy" Churaevka was named. Upon completion of the Liturgy, Bishop Jerome was presented a copy of Grebenstchikoff’s novel "Yegorkina zhizn’,” which is today being printed in Russia.

 

The chapel was dedicated by Grebenstchikoff and fellow distinguished founder Nicholas K. Roerich in honor of the then-recently demolished Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.

 

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