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Russian Patriarch leads open-air liturgy in Sakhalin.
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, September 21 (Itar-Tass) - A festive liturgy on the
occasion of the feast of Nativity of the Virgin Mary was chanted in the
open air Tuesday by the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I, now
making a pastoral trip to the regions and territories of the Russian Far
East.
The liturgy took place on Victory Square in the downtown area of
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
His Holiness Kirill told the gathering that a new Russian Orthodox
metropolitan cathedral will be built on this square.
Placed near it is a T-34 tank and some artillery weapons dating to the
years of World War II when the southern part of Sakhalin still belonged to
Japan and the northern part remained in the Soviet Union's jurisdiction.
"I issue a blessing to build a metropolitan cathedral of the city of
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk here right in this place," Patriarch Kirill said.
His visit to Russia's Far-Eastern insular Sakhalin region coincided
with the days when the Far East marks the 65th anniversary since the end
of World War II hostilities against Japan.
The hostilities ended September 2, 1945.
The festive liturgy brought together more than 2,000 people. Patriarch
Kirill thanked the regional governor, Alexander Khoroshavin, for the
"readiness to implement this great, sacred historic move /meaning
construction of the cathedral/ together with the people."
A number of high-rank regional and federal officials attended the
liturgy. Their list included Alexander Beglov, a deputy chief of staff of
the Russian President's Administration, Viktor Ishayev, the President's
plenipotentiary representative in the Far-Eastern Federal District, and
Pavel Astakhov, the presidential ombudsman for the rights of children.
His Holiness handed awards of the Russian Orthodox Church to the
bishop of the Sakhalin diocese and to Governor Khoroshavin.
Also, he handed distinction diplomas and money prizes to the local
families with many children.
At present, the diocese of Sakhalin has 45 operating churches -- a
marked rise from the zero that was left by 1989 after the Japanese
occupation /from 1905 through 1945/ and subsequent decades of
state-sponsored Soviet atheism.
The first newly built church was consecrated here in 1989.
Monday, Patriarch Kirill consecrated a new church in the name of St
Prince Alexander of the Neva located 6 kilometers away from
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
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occasion of the feast of Nativity of the Virgin Mary was chanted in the
open air Tuesday by the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I, now
making a pastoral trip to the regions and territories of the Russian Far
East.
The liturgy took place on Victory Square in the downtown area of
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
His Holiness Kirill told the gathering that a new Russian Orthodox
metropolitan cathedral will be built on this square.
Placed near it is a T-34 tank and some artillery weapons dating to the
years of World War II when the southern part of Sakhalin still belonged to
Japan and the northern part remained in the Soviet Union's jurisdiction.
"I issue a blessing to build a metropolitan cathedral of the city of
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk here right in this place," Patriarch Kirill said.
His visit to Russia's Far-Eastern insular Sakhalin region coincided
with the days when the Far East marks the 65th anniversary since the end
of World War II hostilities against Japan.
The hostilities ended September 2, 1945.
The festive liturgy brought together more than 2,000 people. Patriarch
Kirill thanked the regional governor, Alexander Khoroshavin, for the
"readiness to implement this great, sacred historic move /meaning
construction of the cathedral/ together with the people."
A number of high-rank regional and federal officials attended the
liturgy. Their list included Alexander Beglov, a deputy chief of staff of
the Russian President's Administration, Viktor Ishayev, the President's
plenipotentiary representative in the Far-Eastern Federal District, and
Pavel Astakhov, the presidential ombudsman for the rights of children.
His Holiness handed awards of the Russian Orthodox Church to the
bishop of the Sakhalin diocese and to Governor Khoroshavin.
Also, he handed distinction diplomas and money prizes to the local
families with many children.
At present, the diocese of Sakhalin has 45 operating churches -- a
marked rise from the zero that was left by 1989 after the Japanese
occupation /from 1905 through 1945/ and subsequent decades of
state-sponsored Soviet atheism.
The first newly built church was consecrated here in 1989.
Monday, Patriarch Kirill consecrated a new church in the name of St
Prince Alexander of the Neva located 6 kilometers away from
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
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