« His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh and the clergy of the Dormition Cathedral in London served a panikhida at the grave of Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) »

On April 25, 2023, on the day of Radonitsa, His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh and the clergy of the Dormition Cathedral in London served a panikhida at the grave of Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) at the Old Brompton Cemetery.

His Grace was assisted by Archpriest Maxim Nikolsky, Dean of the Diocesan District of South East England Archpriest Vitaly Polishchuk, Secretary of the Diocese of Sourozh Archpriest Dimitry Nedostupenko, Priest Vasily Gandzyuk, Protodeacon Vadim Santsevitch and Deacon Victor Nikiforov.

The funeral hymns were performed by the choir of the Dormition Cathedral in London under the direction of Dmitry Tugarinov.

The parishioners of the Cathedral, spiritual children and admirers of his legacy came to honor the memory of Metropolitan Anthony, many of whom had been personally acquainted with the ever-memorable Vladyka Anthony for many years.

At the end of the panikhida, Vladyka Matthew addressed the audience with a word, noting the archpastoral labors of the founding father of the Diocese of Sourozh in strengthening Russian Orthodoxy in the British Isles and the great contribution of Metropolitan Anthony to the work of preaching the Gospel around the world.

At the end, the Archpastor laid a bouquet of flowers on the grave of Metropolitan Anthony.

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