Representatives of Russian Church attend consecration of a church by Serbian Patriarch in Resistencia

DECR Communication Service, 06.11.2023.

On November 5, His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church consecrated the Church of the Holy Trinity in the city of Resistencia, Chaco Province, Argentina.

The Primate celebrated the Divine Liturgy together with the Serbian Bishops Arsenije of Niš, Nikodim of Dalmatia, Medodije of Budimlja and Nikšić, Stefan of Remesiana, vicar of the Diocese of Belgrade and Karlovci, Kirilo of Buenos Aires and South-Central America, as well as with Bishop John of Caracas and South America, Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and Bishop Leonid of Argentina and South America, the ruling hierarch of the Diocese of Argentina, Moscow Patriarchate.

The diocesan telegram channel reports that also concelebrating were clerics from the parishes of the Russian and Serbian Orthodox Churches in Latin America, including Archpriest Sergiy Yurin, secretary of the Diocese of Argentina.

Liturgical exclamations were said in the Serbian, Church Slavonic and Spanish languages.

Among those attending the festive divine service were Mr. Jorge Capitanich, governor of Chako Province; Mr. Dejan Blagojević, chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Republic of Serbia in the Argentine Republic; representatives of local government bodies, the Roman Catholic Church and the Serbian diaspora, as well as numerous guests.

At the end of the Liturgy, the Primate of the Serbian Churches addressed the worshippers with a primatial homily.

After that, awards of the Serbian Orthodox Church were presented. Governor Jorge Capitanich was awarded the Order of St. Sava, 2^nd class, in consideration of his work done for the construction of the Church of the Holy Trinity.

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Representatives of Russian Church attend consecration of a church by Serbian Patriarch in Resistencia

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