The vicar of the Rostov diocese performed the Divine Liturgy in the lower crypt church-tomb in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos of the Patriarchal Ascension Military All-Cossack Cathedral in Novocherkassktranslated

On October 14, 2026, on the feast of the Intercession of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, the vicar of the Rostov-on-Don diocese, Bishop Artemy of Taganrog, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the lower crypt church-tomb in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos of the Patriarchal Ascension Military All-Cossack Cathedral of the city of Novocherkassk.

His Eminence was co-served by the dean of the parishes of the Novocherkassk district, Archpriest Oleg Dobrinsky, the rector of the cathedral, Archpriest Georgy Smorkalov, and clergy of the diocese.

Praying at the service were the ataman of the Military Cossack Society “The Great Don Army” Sergei Bodryakov, the deputy of the Novocherkassk City Duma German Zaporozhchenko, the first deputy head of the administration of Novocherkassk Konstantin Khmelnitsky, the director of the Don Emperor Alexander III Cossack cadet corps Andrey Rembailo, the ataman of the Novocherkassk district of the East Kazakhstan region “The Great Don Army” Andrey Demchenko, Director of the Department for Cossack Affairs and Cadet Educational Institutions of the Rostov Region Sergey Krasavin, students of the Platov Hundred of the South State Russian Pedagogical University (NPI) named after. M.I. Platov of the Stanitsa Cossack Society “Platovskoye” of the Novocherkassk Cossack District of the All-Great Don Army, ...