Metropolitan John of Western and Central Europe visited the Cathedral of the Dormition in London

On 17th June, Metropolitan John of Western and Central Europe (Antiochian Orthodox Church) visited the Cathedral of the Dormition in London.
On 17th June, Metropolitan John of Western and Central Europe (Antiochian Orthodox Church) visited the Cathedral of the Dormition in London.
On 13th June, Sunday of All Saints who shone forth from the Land of Britain and Ireland, with the blessing of Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh, the Divine Liturgy and the Vigil on the eve of the feast were celebrated in English at the Cathedral of the Dormition in London.
On Saturday, 12th June, Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh took part in the Annual Meeting of the Cambridge Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies.
On Friday, 11th June, Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh took part in the festive Reception at the Embassy of Russian Federation in Great Britain dedicated to the celebration of the Day of Russia.
The Conference took place on June 4th - 6th at the Wycliffe Conference Centre near High Wycombe on the theme: 'Marriage, Monasticism and the Single Life'.
See the Conference website www.sourozh-conference.org
On Monday, 31 May, Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh took part in a session of the Holy Synod held in the historical building of the Holy Synod in Saint Petersburg.
On 30 May, Sunday of All Saints, Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh, as a temporary member of the Holy Synod, took part in the Divine Liturgy celebrated by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in the St. Isaac Cathedral in Saint Petersburg.
Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh took part in the visit of His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople to Saint Petersburg.
On Sunday, 23 May, the Holy Trinity Day, the festive Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the London Dormition Cathedral followed by Vespers with kneeling prayers. After the service, Archbishop Anatoly of Kerch, Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Sourozh, was awarded the order of Saint Andrei Rublev, second class.
On Monday, 17 May, Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh took part in a festive service in the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin where the Holy Shroud was opened for vereration.
On Sunday, 16 May, Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh together with the Rector of the parish Priest Andrew Louth, cleric of the Diocese of Sourozh and professor of of the University of Durham, Hieromonch Serafim (Aldea), cleric of the Romanian Church, and Protodeacon Dimitry Nedostupenko celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Parish of Saint Cuthbert and Saint Bede in Durham.
On Saturday, 14 May, Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh celebrated a Divine Liturgy in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
On 9 May, the day of the celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory in the World War II, a special thanksgiving Moleben blessed by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and a Memorial Service for the departed warriors and those who suffered for the Faith and Mortherland took place after the festive Divine Liturgy in the London Dormition Cathedral.
On Saturday, 8 of May, a meeting of the pupils of the Parish School with the parishioners who remembered the horrors of World War II took place in the London Dormition Cathedral.
On 6 May, the feast of the Holy Great Martyr George the Victory-bearer, the Holy Martyr Anatoly and the Holy Martyr Empress Alexandra, Archbishop Anatoly of Kerch, Suffragan Bishop of Diocese of Sourozh, celebrated his Name’s Day.
On Sunday, 2 May, Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh celebrated the first Holy Liturgy in the newly established Parish in honour of St Elisabeth and St Barbara the New Martyrs in Newton Abbot.
On 27 April, an exhibition of Estonian Orthodox Icons was opened in London Pushkin House by Bishop Lazar of Narva, who arrived in the UK on that occasion.
On Sunday, 25 April, Bishop Lazar of Narva visited the London Dormition Cathedral. The previous night Bishop Lazar arrived to London to take part in the opening of the exhibition of estonian icons which will take place at Pushkin House on 27 April.
On Bright Saturday, 10 April, Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh made an archpastoral visit to the parish of Saint Kentigern in Glasgow. Vladyka celebrated the Divine Liturgy, together with Archpriest Gennadiy Andreev, Rector of the parish, Protodeacon Dimitry Nedostupenko, clergyman of the London Dormition Cathedral, and some of the clergy of the Glasgow parishes of the Constantinopolitan and Romanian Patriarchates.
On 9 April, the Fiest of the Mother of God’s icon «The Lifegiving Spring», Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh made an archpastoral visit to Walsingham, Norfolk, where he celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Pan-Orthodox Chapel of the Lifegiving Spring together with Archpriest Phillip Steer, Rector of the parish, and Protodeacon Dimitry Nedostupenko, clergyman of the London Dormition Cathedral.