Metropolitan Maximilian met with the head of the Special Communications of Russia, Colonel General Ivan Gaichenyatranslated

On August 26, 2026, in the building of the Diocesan Administration, a meeting was held between Metropolitan Maximilian of Irkutsk and Angarsk with the head of the federal state unitary enterprise Spetsvyaz of Russia, Colonel General Ivan Alekseevich Gaichenya, who is in Irkutsk on a working visit. The meeting was also attended by the First Deputy Head, Colonel General Andrei Vasilyevich Nechaev, the head of the Irkutsk branch, Major General Oleg Petrovich Semashko, and the priest Grigory Gudin. During the conversation, Bishop Maximilian and Ivan Alekseevich exchanged views on the organization of mutual cooperation between the Irkutsk diocese and the Irkutsk Department of Special Communications of Russia in the implementation of socially significant projects.

Metropolitan Maximilian of Irkutsk and Angarsk introduced Colonel General Ivan Gaichenya with information about the religious procession with the relics of St. Innocent of Irkutsk planned in 2027, an anniversary for the Irkutsk diocese and the Irkutsk region, through the territory of Western Siberia, which will be carried out, among other things, with the help of the Special Communications of Russia. Ivan Alekseevich shared his impressions of Irkutsk, and also visited the Cathedral of the Sign, where he venerated the relics of the first...