Anniversary celebrations took place in the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael in Sochitranslated

On October 11, 2026, on the 19th Sunday after Pentecost, Saints Cyril and Mary, parents of the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh, and on the celebration of the 135th anniversary of the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael in Sochi, the manager of the affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan of the Resurrection, arrived to celebrate the significant date for the Sochi residents of the consecration of the first stone cathedral of the modern Black Sea region Gregory and Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban Vasily.

At the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael, Metropolitan Gregory was met by: the manager of the Sochi diocese, Bishop German, the secretary of the diocesan administration, Archpriest Dionysius Marchuk, the rector of the cathedral, Archpriest Alexander Kovalev, the chief adviser to the department for internal policy of the office of the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District M. V. Lukichev, the deputy head of the city of Sochi A. B. Mitnikov, the deputy chairman of the City Meetings of Sochi A. A. Zhigalko, head of the department for interaction with public associations of the administration of the resort city of Sochi T. N. Katanidi, representatives of law enforcement agencies, director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "South Sport" M. V. Dremov, director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Sochi National Park" A. A. Kiselev, Cossacks led by the ataman of the Central RKO "Navaginskoe" ...