Deputy Minister for Internal Affairs of Russia awarded members of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission and Mother Superior of the Gorny Convent in Jerusalem

M. Sukhodolsky, Deputy Minister for Internal Affairs of Russia, handed over breastplates ‘For Merits’ of the Department for state protection of property to Archimandrite Elisei (Ganaba), head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, Hegumenia Georgia, Mother Superior of the Gorny Convent, and the Mission’s clergymen Tikhon (Zaitsev) and Hegumen Sergy (Ivannikov).

The breastplates were given for the efforts taken by the Mission’s members on vindication of land property bought by their predecessors in the Holy Land for the pilgrimage of our compatriots.