{"id":180043,"date":"2019-11-14T20:12:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=180043"},"modified":"2019-11-15T19:01:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:01:17","slug":"%d1%81%d0%b2%d1%8f%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%b9%d1%88%d0%b8%d0%b9-%d0%bf%d0%b0%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%b0%d1%80%d1%85-%d0%ba%d0%b8%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%bb%d0%bb-%d1%81%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b5%d1%80%d1%88%d0%b8%d0%bb-%d0%bc-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2019\/11\/14\/news180043\/","title":{"rendered":"His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrates prayer service at the site of St. Bartholomew\u2019s martyrdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 November 2019, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated a prayer service at the remains of the chapel of St. Bartholomew in the capital of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Church tradition holds that St. Bartholomew, one of Christ\u2019s twelve apostles, suffered and died for the Saviour here. A Christian church was built on the site, and in 1892 the chapel of St. Bartholomew was built here on private donations. It was demolished in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century in the years of the persecution of faith.<\/p>\n<p>Praying at the service were Metropolitan Pavel of Minsk and Zaslavl, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus; Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations; Metropolitan Vikenty of Tashkent and Uzbekistan; Metropolitan Kirill of Yekaterinburg and Verkhnyay Tura; Archbishop Alexander of Baku and Azerbaijan; members of the delegation accompanying His Holiness; clerics of the diocese and many Orthodox residents of Baku.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 November 2019, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated a prayer service at the remains of the chapel of St. Bartholomew in the capital of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":101947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,11,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}