Metropolitan Nikita of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk visited women's correctional colony No. 22translated

On October 18, Metropolitan Nikita of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk visited Correctional Colony No. 22 of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

At the gates of the correctional institution, Bishop Nikita was met by the first deputy head of the GUFSIN of Russia for the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Evgeniy Anatolyevich Stepanov, and the deputy head of the GUFSIN for the region, Yuri Vladimirovich Semenyuk.

Then the head of the Krasnoyarsk Metropolis celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the prison church of the Great Martyr Anastasia the Pattern Maker. At the end of the service, His Eminence visited the Children's Home, where the children of convicted women are kept, and gave them an archpastoral blessing.

Next, a festive concert took place in the assembly hall of the institution. Metropolitan Nikita addressed its participants and spectators with an Archpastoral word. The convicts themselves, as well as the regent of the Church of the Hieromartyr Amphilochia Elena Mengalova, the author and performer of spiritual songs, delighted the guests with their performances.

The convicted women thanked the bishop from the bottom of their hearts for the visit, joint prayer and attention, noting that such meetings give them important spiritual support and hope.