On the day of celebration in honor of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, Archbishop Jonathan performed the Divine Liturgy in Chernogorsk and blessed the beginning of the citywide religious processiontranslated

On August 10, 2026, on the day of the celebration of the Mother of God in honor of Her Icon of Smolensk (Hodegetria) and on the day of remembrance of the holy apostles from seventy Prochorus, Nikanor, Timon and Parmen deacons, His Grace Archbishop Jonathan of Abakan and Khakassia celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Chernogorsk. Concelebrating with the Bishop were Hieromonk Pallady (Vinnikov) and Archpriest Sergius Babaytsev. The diaconate […]