The all-night vigil by the bishop's service on the eve of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary took place at the Znamensky Monasterytranslated

The all-night vigil on the eve of the Feast of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 27, 2026, in the Znamensky Cathedral in Irkutsk was led by two bishops - Metropolitan of Irkutsk and Angarsk Maximilian and Bishop of Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk Konstantin. The bishops of the Irkutsk Metropolis were concelebrated by Abbot Feofan (Evtikheev), secoretar of the Irkutsk diocese priest Stefan Bazhkov, priest Oleg Isaev, hieromonk Efrem (Bazhkov), secretary of the Bratsk diocese priest Anthony Vasiliev, priest Dimitry Davydov and deacons Pyotr Novoselov, Prokhor Ogorodnikov and Vladimir Sokolov. At the end of the service, Metropolitan Maximilian tonsured the elder sister of the Spassky Sisterhood at the All Saints Church in Bratsk, Galina Yuryevna Zagainova, into monastic vows and named her Gavrila in honor of the Archangel Gabriel, who brought the Good News to the young Virgin Mary.

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