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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\nOn 27 March 2015, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in Kazan with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to take part in the celebrations marking the millennium of the demise of the Holy Prince Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles.<\/p>\n
Meeting the high guests at the airport were Metropolitan Anastasiy of Kazan and Tatarstan, head of the Tatarstan metropolia; Bishop Mefodiy of Almetievsk and Bugulma; Mr. Alexander Terentiev, head of the Tatarstan President\u2019s department for domestic policy; hegumen Yevfimiy (Moiseyev), rector of the Kazan Theological seminary; and clerics of the Kazan diocese.<\/p>\n
The Saturday programme includes the Divine liturgy at the Monastery of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary to be celebrated by Metropolitan Hilarion together with Metropolitan Anastasiy and Bishop Mefodiy, Metropolitan Hilarion\u2019s address to be delivered at the final session of the Conference on \u2018Civilization Choice of the Peoples of Russia: unity of history, unity of people, unity of Russia,\u2019 All-Night vigil at the Kazan Orthodox theological seminary, and the DECR chairman\u2019s meeting with the faculty and students.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Metropolitan Hilarion will celebrate the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Annunciation in the Kazan Kremlin. Attending the service will be representatives of the Orthodox brotherhoods and sisterhoods, members of the Cossack communities, of youth organizations of the Tatarstan metropolia, pupils of the urban and rural Sunday schools, and parishioners of other Kazan churches.<\/p>\n
Later in the day Metropolitan Hilarion will attend an opening ceremony of the \u2018Apostle\u2019 Diocesan Religious Education Centre established at the Bishop\u2019s Metochion named after the Holy Martyr Kirill, Metropolitan of Kazan. Activists of the youth movement will present electronic versions of the projects which were shown at the forum of the Tatarstan Orthodox Youth called \u2018The Holy Prince Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles. Faith and Works.\u2019 Winners of the diocesan competition \u2018Love! Live! Act!\u2019 will receive their awards.<\/p>\n
In conclusion of his visit to Kazan, Metropolitan Hilarion will lead an opening ceremony of the All-Russia photo exhibition \u2018To the Millennium of the Holy Prince Vladimir\u2019s Demise: Faith through-the-lens of Contemporaries.\u2019<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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