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Bishop Ignatius celebrated the Liturgy in the Parish of the Church of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Kovali, Glubokoe deanerytranslated

August 7, 2026 · 1 min read

On August 7, on the day of the Dormition of Righteous Anna, the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Bishop Ignatius of Polotsk and Glubokoe led the Divine Liturgy at the parish of the Church of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Kovali.

At the walls of the church, Svetlana Fedorovna Timofeeva and Sergei Aleksandrovich Krupenin met the archpastor with a loaf and flowers.

During the Liturgy, His Eminence was concelebrated by: Secretary of the Polotsk Diocese Archpriest Alexander Petlitsky, Dean of the Glubokoye Church District Archpriest Mikhail Izoitko, Dean of the Bereslavl Church District Archpriest Mikhail Koleda, Archpriest Sergius Gramyko, Hieromonk Aristarkh (Sharobayko), Archpriest Nikolai Voitov, rector of the church, priest Alexander Stotik, cleric of the Holy Spiritual Cathedral in Minsk, protodeacon Nikolai Avsievich, deacon John Kamenkov.

Liturgical chants were performed by the combined choir of the Glubokoe Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the direction of Tatyana Potopakhina.

During the service, intense prayer requests for the granting of peace were offered.

Based on the sacramental verse, the sermon was delivered by the rector of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Priest Alexander Stotik.

After the dismissal of the Divine Liturgy, the bishop...

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