The experience of the Tver diocese in understanding the holiness of the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church (using the example of 2025)translated

On November 9, 2026, in the Sergius Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, under the chairmanship of the Patriarchal Vicar of the Moscow Metropolis, Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsky and Kolomna, a meeting of the Church and Public Council under the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' was held to perpetuate the memory of the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church. The meeting was attended by priests of the Tver diocese, including the secretary of the diocesan commission for worship and canonization of saints, priest Alexander Rychkov, who presented the report “The experience of the Tver diocese in understanding the holiness of new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church (using the example of 2025).” Your Eminences, Eminences, fathers, brothers and sisters! In the Cathedral of Tver Saints there are 126 new martyrs out of 179 saints. In the Tver diocese, annually, on the initiative of the ruling bishop, Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin Ambrose, the theme of the year is adopted at the diocesan meeting.

The theme for 2025 is formulated as “Understanding the holiness of the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church of the 20th century.” Such a dedication of the year is an expression of special and constant attention to a topic that is one of the central ones in the life of the diocese.…