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Two festive exhibitions are open in the Diocese of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory

Two festive exhibitions were open in diocesan administration of the Diocese of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory on February 5, 2006.

One of them is dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the revival of the Diocese of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory and relates about its work. Bishop Tikhon said in his opening address that ‘our diocese as all other dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church strives to work for the welfare of people’.

The exhibition shows most interesting and significant aspects of diocesan life, its shrines and monasteries, construction of churches and social ministry, cooperation with secular authorities and building of the Cathedral of St. Michael, education and catechism, mass media and publishing work, art of bell ringing, church singing and iconography.

The second exhibition is devoted to the 5th anniversary of establishing Russian Foundation of Architectural Heritage of St. Andrew Rublev. The photo exhibition presents most interesting objects that were reconstructed, restored or built in five years. Among them are churches, chapels, icon screens, and masterpieces of wooden architecture. Foundation’s president Vyacheslav Kiselev says they pay special attention to wooden architecture.

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Bishop Georgy of Nizny Novgorod and Arzamas consecrates a dome cross of the Church of Our Lady of Vladimir

On 3 February 2006, Bishop Georgy of Nizny Novgorod and Arzamas consecrated a dome cross of the Church of Our Lady of Vladimir. Soon, it will be elevated to the dome of the Church.

The Church of the early 19th century was desolated for a long time. It has been almost restored in the recent three years. Subsidiary office of the ‘Volgotransgas’ Ltd. extended great help in restoration. Bishop Georgy awarded the work collective of the enterprise with a special archpastoral diploma.

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Head of Missionary Department of the Diocese of Yuzhny Sakhalin: chaplains can prevent tragedies in the army

Presence of the Church in the army can prevent such cases as recent tragedy in Chelyabinsk, Rev. Viktor Gorbach, Head of the Missionary Department of the Diocese of Yuzhny Sakhalin thinks. ‘I think the Church is the only institute that can save our society enduring a spiritual crisis’, he said.

Fr. Viktor thinks the Church should bring spirituality to army life. He believes when a priest comes to a military unit and participates in its life, it has favorable effect to the atmosphere among the servicemen.

‘It is very important that he should not be considered the second in command for educational work, as some people mistakenly think about our ministry. In this case we face a profanation of missionary work. A priest should reveal to a serviceman his human, Christian essence’, Fr. Viktor believes.

The Diocese of Yuzny Sakhalin organized the Department for Cooperation with Armed Forces and every military unit has a priest, whose parish is located near the garrison.

‘We often think that army is a closed society that has its own objectives and interests different from interests of the rest of society, but it is not true. The same people are in the army, at school and in the university. Soldiers are mostly school graduates and they have the same interests as their ‘civil’ equals in age do. So we do not have to invent anything special’, the priest noted.

According to him, ‘it is important to explain to a person how the Church can help him in his life and how he can help to the Church. If members of our society understand that above all they are Christians, our life will change for better’.

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Servicemen in Mari intend to ask Orthodox Church for support in their struggle against violations of army regulations

Participants in the regular annual assembly of the 27th Missile Army held in Mari-El decided to ask the Church for help in their struggle against violations of army regulations. Officers, involved in educational work in the units, discussed various questions, but the problem of army discipline became the most topical issue after recent events at the Chelyabinsk Tank College. They concluded it was impossible to solve the problem of violations in the army only through disciplinary punishments. Officers decided to turn to the Church for help.

The Kiev-Gitomir Missile Division housed in Mari-El has cooperated with the Diocese of Mari for a long time. The church is opened in a regiment; other regiments have prayer rooms. Every unit has a priest who meets and talks to servicemen regularly.

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Scholarly Theological Conference dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Sarov Hermitage will take place in the Laura of the Holy Trinity and St.Sergius and in Sarov

The St. Seraphim of Sarov Foundation, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary, the St. Tikhon Orthodox University and the Nizhny Novgorod diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church will hold the 3rd annual All-Russian scholarly theological conference ‘The Legacy of St.Seraphim of Sarov and the Fortunes of Russia’ from June 28 to July 1, 2006.

The conference is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Sarov Hermitage. Its task is to discuss spiritual, moral, theological, historical, social, cultural, public and political aspects of the revival of Orthodox monasteries.

The conference will begin its work in plenary session in the conference hall of the Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary on 28 June 2006.

The prayer service before the conference will be celebrated in the Cathedral of the Trinity in the Laura of the Holy Trinity and St.Sergius. In the evening the participants of the conference invited to Sarov will leave there by train to continue their work.

The Divine Liturgy before the conference in Sarov will be celebrated in the restored church of St.Seraphim on 29 June 2006. This date marks the 300th anniversary of the Sarov hermitage. That same day an exhibition ‘May this place be for your salvation…’ will be opened with exhibits from museums, archives and private collections. The conference will work in sections on 29-30 June on the premises of Russian Federal Nuclear Centre of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics.

Round Table on ‘Orthodox Monasteries and Strategy of Russia’ Development’ will be held in the framework of the conference on 29 June 2006.

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Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the revival of the Arkhangelsk diocese is completed

On February 6, the commemoration day of St.Xenia of Petersburg, Metropolitan Clement officiated at the Divine Liturgy in the church of St.Xenia in Arkhangelsk. Concelebrating were Archbishop Alexander of Kostroma and Galich, Bishop Yustinian of Tiraspol and Dubossary and Bishop Tikhon of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory.

After the divine service members of the delegations visited the Pomorje State University named after M.V. Lomonosov and its home chapel consecrated in the name of St. John of Kronshtadt. Metropolitan Clement presented rector of the church Archpriest Evgeny Sokolov with an icon of the holy hierarchs of Moscow.

The delegation met with the faculty and students. Rector of the University Vladimir Bulatov was awarded an Order of St.Daniel of Moscow, 3rd class, in consideration of his contribution to spiritual revival of the Russian North.

Metropolitan Clement answered questions of the journalists about the outcome and significance of the celebrations and about topical problems for church and society.

Official program of the jubilee celebrations in the Arkhangelsk diocese was completed.

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Primate of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia His Beatitude Metropolitan Nikolaj was buried in Presov

On 4 February 2006, a burial service for the late Primate of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia His Beatitude Metropolitan Nikolaj was celebrated in the cathedral church of St.Alexander Nevsky in Presov (Slovakia).

Locum tenens-elect Archbishop Krystof of Prague and the Czech Lands officiated at the divine service attended by many clergymen and laymen.

Taking part in the service were representatives of the Local Orthodox Churches Metropolitan Jeremiah of Switzerland (Ecumenical Patriarchate), Metropolitan Petros of Aksum (Patriarchate of Alexandria), hierarchs of the Churches of Serbia, Romania, Greece, Poland and America.

Archbishop Feofan of Berlin and Germany led a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy. The delegation included Bishop Agapit of Uzhgorod and Mukachevo and Archpriest Gennady Budko, rector of the Russian Orthodox representation in Karlovy Vary. Archbishop Feofan read out a message of condolences from His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia to the Holy Synod, clergymen and laymen of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia.

Attending the burial service were President of the Republic of Slovakia Ivan Gasparovich, former president Rudolf Shuster, Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda, the nuncio of the Apostolic See in Slovakia, representatives of the Greek Catholic, Lutheran and other churches. Minister-counselor of the Russian Federation in Slovakia Yu.L.Tsingovatov represented the Russian Federation.

The deceased is rested in a crypt under the sanctuary of the cathedral, which was built with the blessing of the late primate.

On 4 February 2006, with the blessing of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, deputy chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Bishop Mark of Yegorievsk celebrated the Divine Liturgy and Requiem service together with clergymen of the representation church and DECR staff members in the Church of St. Nicholas in Kotelniki, a Moscow representation of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia.

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