Metropolitan Vasily of Ekaterinodar and Kuban led the All-Night Vigil in St. Michael's Cathedral in Sochitranslated

On the evening of October 10, on the eve of the 19th Sunday after Pentecost, the memory of Saints Cyril and Mary, the parents of the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh, and the celebration of the 135th anniversary of the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael in Sochi, the All-Night Vigil in St. Michael's Cathedral was led by Metropolitan Vasily of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, co-served by the administrator of Sochi diocese of Bishop Herman.

Praying together with the archpastors were: the secretary of the diocesan administration, Archpriest Dionysius Marchuk, the dean of the Sochi church district, Archpriest Alexander Kopyrin, the rector of the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael, Archpriest Alexander Kovalev, the cleric of the cathedral, Priest Vadim Ulyanovsky, the cleric of St. Catherine's Cathedral in Krasnodar, Priest Vyacheslav Mironov, as well as Priest John Kopyrin, who is undergoing liturgical practice at the St. Vladimir Cathedral. The diaconal rank was represented by the clergyman of the St. Vladimir Cathedral, Protodeacon Andrey Filippov, the cleric of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Sochi, Protodeacon Viktor Kozhenovsky, and the deacon of the St. Vladimir Cathedral, Daniil Nazarov.

The reading of the Holy Gospel and the anointing of the worshipers with consecrated oil was performed by Metropolitan Vasily.

At the end of the service, the head...