Metropolitan Pavel led the festive celebrations in Kazantranslated

On November 3 and 4, 2026, the Patriarchal Vicar of the Moscow Metropolis, Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsky and Kolomna, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', led the celebrations on the occasion of the memory of the Kazan Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The festive events were preceded by a tour of the city of Kazan. Metropolitan Pavel visited the museum of the archaeological tree “Tatar Settlement”, the Sviyazhsk St. John the Baptist Convent and the Sviyazhsk Mother of God Assumption Monastery. On the evening of November 3, on the eve of the celebration of the icon of the Kazan Most Holy Theotokos, Metropolitan Pavel led an all-night vigil with the singing of an akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos in the Kazan Cathedral of the capital of Tatarstan (at the site of the appearance of the miraculous image).

His Eminence was served by a host of archpastors: Metropolitan Kirill of Kazan and Tatarstan, Metropolitan Panteleimon of Lugansk and Alchevsk, Metropolitan Leonid (Gorbachev), Metropolitan Ignatius of Perm and Kungur, Bishop of Borovichi and Pestovsky Pachomius, Bishop Stefan of Kanash and Belovolzhsky, Bishop of Almetyevsk and Bugulma Methodius, Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk Philaret, Bishop of Serdobsk and Spassky Mitrofan, Bishop of Naberezhnye Chelny and...