The Chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism led the patronal celebrations of the Church of the Great Martyr Nikita at the Moscow courtyard of the Russian Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athostranslated

On September 28, on the post-feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the day of remembrance of the Great Martyr Nikita, the chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism, Metropolitan Theognost of Kashira, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Great Martyr Nikita on Shvivaya Hill behind the Yauza (Athos Metochion).