08.10.26 Metropolitan Joseph, among other archpastors, concelebrated with His Holiness Patriarch Kirilltranslated

On October 8, the day of the repose of St. Sergius, abbot of Radonezh, wonderworker of all Russia, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Assumption Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Lavra of Sergius. Among the archpastors who served with the Primate of the Russian Church was Metropolitan Joseph of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Vichuga.

Concelebrating with His Holiness during the Liturgy were: Metropolitan Benjamin of Minsk and Zaslavl, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus; Metropolitan Gregory of the Resurrection, manager of the affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate, first vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' for the city of Moscow; Metropolitan Nikandr of Vladimir and Suzdal, Chairman of the Financial and Economic Administration of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Arseny of Lipetsk and Zadonsk; Metropolitan Joseph of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Vichuga; Metropolitan Seraphim of Baltic and Svetlogorsk, Patriarchal Vicar of the Kaliningrad Metropolis; Metropolitan Daniel of Kurgan and Belozersk; Metropolitan Feognost of Kashira, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism; Metropolitan Georgy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas; Metropolitan Panteleimon of Lugansk and Alchevsk; Metropolitan Nikon of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak;...