His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Liturgy at the church of St. Zosima and St. Savvaty of Solovki in Golyanovo, Moscow

On March 27, 2022, on the Sunday of the Cross, with a large gathering of worshipers in the church of St. Zosima and St. Savvaty of Solovki in Golyanovo, Moscow, a solemn hierarchical service was celebrated. Two bishops co-served at the Divine Liturgy: Bishop Panteleimon of Vereya, Vicar of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Administrator of the Eastern Vicariate of Moscow, and Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, temporary Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada.

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill had a talk with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby

On March 16, 2022, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia held a video call with Archbishop of Canterbury Justine Welby.

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Address of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill dated March 16, 2022 regarding the events in Ukraine

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia addressed the archpastors, pastors, monastics and all the faithful children of the Russian Orthodox Church in connection with the events in Ukraine.

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Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Oxford was attacked

In the early morning of March 12, 2022, the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Oxford of the Sourozh diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Great Britain and Ireland was attacked.

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An annual pilgrimage to the venerated icon of the Three-Hands Icon of the Mother of God took place in Birmingham

On February 26, 2022, with the blessing of His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, a one-day annual pilgrimage to the revered copy of the miraculous icon of the Most Holy Mother of God "Three Hands" took place in the Serbian church of St. Prince Lazar in Birmingham.

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Patriarch Kirill's address to the hierarchs, clergy, monastics, and faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church

On February 24, 2022, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia issued an address to the hierarchs, clergy, monastics, and all faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church

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Pilgrimage to the holy places of Mercia and North Wales

On February 21, 2022, a group of parishioners led by archpriest Stephen Platt, Dean of the Diocesan District of Central England, Rector of St.Nicholas the Wonderworker church in Oxford, began a pilgrimage to the holy places of the undivided Church in Mercia (Central England) and North Wales.

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Archpriest Michael Fortunato reposed in the Lord

On February 19, 2022, at the age of 91, archpriest Michael Fortunato, a supernumerary cleric of the Archdiocese of Western European Parishes of Russian Tradition, reposed in the Lord.

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill honored Bishop Matthew of Sourozh with the Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov, III degree

On February 15, 2022, on the feast of the Meeting of the Lord, after the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia awarded the Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov, III degree, to Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, temporarily Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada.

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On the feast of the Meeting of the Lord, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh concelebrated His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow

On February 15, 2022, on the feast of the Meeting of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.

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Pilgrimage to the birthplace of St. Brigid of Kildare

On February 12, 2022, on the eve of the feast day of the memory of St. Brigid of Kildare (5th-6th centuries), parishioners of the Church of the Holy Chief Apostles Peter and Paul in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, led by the church Rector archpriest Michael Nasonov, made pilgrimage to the birthplace of St. Brigid in Faughart, County Louth.

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His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh visited the Novospassky Stavropegial Monastery in Moscow

On February 6, 2022, while on a business trip to Russia, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, interim Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada, visited the Novospassky Stavropegial Monastery in Moscow.

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Thirteenth Anniversary of the Enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia

On February 1, 2022, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the thirteenth anniversary of the enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

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Pilgrimage to Caldbeck to the spring of the Holy Hierarch Kentigern

On Saturday, January 29, 2022, with the blessing of His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, clergy and parishioners of the Diocesan District of the Northern England and Wales made a pilgrimage to Caldbeck, to the spring of St. Kentigern (Mungo) of Strathclyde, Bishop of Glasgow (commemorated January 13/26).

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Divine Liturgy and the Great Blessing of Water were celebrated in the Scottish parish of St. Kentigern in Glasgow

On January 23, 2022, on the 31st Sunday after Pentecost, after the Theophany, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the parish of St. Kentigern of Startclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.

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The rite of the Great Blessing of Water was performed on the Cayman Islands

The rite of the Great Blessing of Water was performed at the Smith Cove bay on the Cayman Islands.  

The consecration of water was performed by the cleric of the Sourozh Diocese, priest Nikolai Evseev, who temporarily resides on the island of Grand Cayman.

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Services resumed in the parish of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God in Brighton

On January 8, 2022, after a long break due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the parish of the Jerusalem Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God in Brighton and Hove.

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Shepherd's Pipe Carol by the children's choir of the Parish School of the Dormition Cathedral in London

Exapostilarion (The Hymn of Light) of the Nativity of Christ. The ensemble of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God in London

Christmas Message by Metropolitan ANTONY of Korsun and Western Europe, Patriarchal Exarch of Western Europe

Christmas message from Metropolitan ANTONY of Korsun and Western Europe, Patriarchal Exarch of Western Europe to Archpastors, Pastors, monastics and laity of the Western European Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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