His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to celebrate Divine Liturgy at the Church of “Joy to All the Afflicted” Icon of the Mother of God on dedication day

On 6 November 2010, the commemoration day of the “Joy to All the Afflicted” Icon of the Mother of God, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will celebrate the Divine Liturgy at the church in honour of this icon on Bolshaya Ordynka Str. in Moscow.

Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, will concelebrate.

The service will begin at 10.00 a.m.

It will be the first divine service that His Holiness Patriarch Kirill will celebrate at this well-known Moscow church.

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