« On Wednesday of Holy Week, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts at the Dormition Cathedral in London »

On May 1, 2024, Wednesday of Holy Week, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh celebrated the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts at the Dormition Cathedral in London.

Concelebrating with His Grace were Dean of the diocesan district of South-East England, Archpriest Vitaly Polishchuk, Dean of the diocesan district of Wales, Hegumen Deiniol (Davis), Secretary of the Sourozh diocese, Archpriest Dimitry Nedostupenko, Priest Nikita Kozlov, Protodeacon Vadim Santsevitch, Deacon Victor Nikiforov and Deacon Alexander Kapustin.

Liturgical chants were performed by the choir of the Dormition Cathedral under the direction of Dmitry Tugarinov.

At the end of the Great Wednesday service, the Lenten prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian was read for the last time this year.

At the end of the Liturgy, Bishop Matthew addressed the participants in the divine service with an archpastoral word.

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