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The deputy head of the Russian Spiritual Mission congratulates the metropolitan of Nazareth Kyriakos on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.
DECR Communication service, 26.05.2025.
On 24th May 2025 one of the most senior hierarchs of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem the metropolitan of Nazareth and All the Galilee Kyriakos celebrated his eightieth birthday.
On this important day the archpastor headed the Divine Liturgy in the Church of Saint George the Great Martyr in Nazareth. Concelebrating with him were the clergy of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre and the Arabic-speaking clergy of the metropolis of Nazareth, as well as pilgrims from Russia in holy orders.
The service was held in Greek, Arabic, Church Slavonic and Romanian, reports the website of the Russian Spiritual Mission.
At the Great Entrance metropolitan Kyriakos especially commemorated the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’ on the occasion of the latter’s name’s day.
On behalf of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem participating in the service was the deputy head of the Russian Spiritual Mission abbot Nikon (Golovko), who conveyed to the bishop a congratulatory address from the head of the Russian Spiritual Mission archimandrite Vassian (Zmeyev) and presented him with a gift.
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