The divine service on the feast of the Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul in the Cathedral of the Sign was led by two metropolitanstranslated

On July 12, 2026, on the 6th Sunday after Pentecost, the holy chief apostles Peter and Paul, the service of the Divine Liturgy in the Znamensky Cathedral in Irkutsk was led by a guest of our diocese - a permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Alexander of Astana and Kazakhstan, as well as Metropolitan of Irkutsk and Angarsk Maximilian. The clergy of the Irkutsk, Kazakhstan and Sayan dioceses served with the Most Reverend Bishops. In his sermon before Communion, priest Oleg Isaev reminded those praying about the deeds and merits of the apostles Peter and Paul, and also called on modern Christians to “serve God while in their place, constantly remember the Name of God in prayer, constantly turning to God and blotting out their sinful deeds through repentance.” Welcoming a dear guest from Kazakhstan to the Irkutsk land, Metropolitan Maximilian expressed his joy that Bishop Alexander made “a pilgrimage to the holy multi-healing relics of our Saint Innocent, Bishop of Irkutsk, Wonderworker of All Siberia,” and recalled that Metropolitan Alexander helped discover the relics of Saint Innocent in Yaroslavl when he was looking for the relics of Saint Gennady Kostromsky. Also lord...