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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/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 1 October 2011, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia began his primatial visit to the Chernovtsy and Bukovina diocese.<\/p>\n
The official delegation accompanying His Holiness consists of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations (DECR); Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Administrative Secretariat; archpriest Nikolai Balashov, DECR deputy chairman; archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky, head of the Patriarch\u2019s Press Office; archpriest Igor Yakimchuk, DECR secretary for inter-Orthodox relations; I. Meschan, deputy chairman of the Synodal Information Department; protodeacon Vladimir Nazarkin, assistant to the DECR chairman; and M. Kuskov, acting head of the Patriarch\u2019s personal secretariat.<\/p>\n
Meeting His Holiness at the airport in Chernovtsy were Metropolitan Onufriy of Chernovtsy and Bukovina; Archbishop Aleksandr of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky and Visnevsk; Bishop Meletiy of Khotin; Ukrainian Minister of Fuel and Energy Yury Boiko; other state officials; and clergymen of the Chernovtsy diocese.<\/p>\n
His Holiness warmly greeted the residents of Bukovina and expressed his joy over being in this place, which has had a very complicated history, but has been marked with the surprisingly staunch Orthodox belief thanks to which people here have developed a special power of spirit.<\/p>\n
His Holiness proceeded to the Chernovtsy diocesan administration, visited St. Nicholas\u2019 church located in its territory and venerated relics there.<\/p>\n
On the evening, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated the All-Night Vigil at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Chernovtsy together with the assembly of hierarchs and clergymen, including ordained members of the delegation.<\/p>\n
The cathedral could not accommodate all the worshippers, and the service was shown on the screen set up in front of the cathedral.<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Onufriy greeted His Holiness and presented him with an icon of the Saviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany Years\u201d was sung to Patriarch Kirill in the Church Slavonic and Moldavian languages.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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